THE  UNIVERSITY  OF  WISCONSIN 


BY-LAWS  AND  LAWS 

OF  THE 


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EXTRACTS  FROM  THE  FEDERAL  AND 
STATE  LAWS  RELATING  TO 
THE  UNIVERSITY 


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MADISON,  WISCONSIN 
1914 


THE  UNIVERSITY  OF  WISCONSIN 


BY-LAWS  AND  LAWS 

OF  THE 


REGENTS 


WITH 


EXTRACTS  FROM  THE  FEDERAL  AND 
STATE  LAWS  RELATING  TO 
THE  UNIVERSITY 


MADISON,  WISCONSIN 
1914 


CONTENTS 


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FEDERAL  LAWS  . 1 

General  Land  Grants .  1 

Act  of  1883 .  1 

Act  of  1854 . 1 

Agricultural  College  and  Experiment  Station  Grants .  2 

First  Morrill  Act  .  2 

Second  Morrill  Act  .  5 

Nelson  Amendment  to  Morrill  Act .  8 

Act  of  1888  . .  9 

Act  of  1891  . 10 

Act  Constituting  Land  Grant  Colleges  Depositories  for 

Public  Documents  .  10 

Hatch  Act,  1887 .  11 

Amendment  to  Hatch  Act,  1888 .  13 

Amendment  to  Hatch  Act,  1889 .  14 

Adams  Act,  1906  .  14 

Interpretation  of  Adams  Act .  16 

Sale  of  Card  Index  of  Ex.  Sta.  Literature .  17 

Co-operation  of  U.  S.  Dept,  of  Agr.  with  State  Experiment 

Stations  .  17 

Rulings  of  the  Post  Office  Department .  17 

Rulings  of  the  Treasury  Department .  20 

Rulings  of  the  Department  of  Agriculture .  23 

TERRITORIAL  LEGISLATION  .  32 

Establishment  of  University . 32 

STATE  LEGISLATION  .  35 

Constitutional  Provisions  .  35 

Statutes  of  Wisconsin... .  36 

Appropriations  .  36 

Trust  Funds  and  Their  Management .  44 

Public  Printing  .  45 

School  of  Library  Science .  55 

Government  of  the  University .  56 

State  Inspection  Military  department .  68 

Relation  of  University  to  Other  State  Education .  69 

-  County  Agricultural  Representatives .  70 


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STATE  LEGISLATION— Continued 

Condemnation  of  Land . . . -  72 

Purchase  of  State  Manufactured  Articles .  73 

Officers  of  Military  Department  Eligible  to  Appointment 

in  Wisconsin  National  Guard .  74 

Civil  Service  . 74 

Laboratory  of  Hygiene .  75 

Co-operation  of  University  with  Dairy  and  Food  Commis¬ 
sioner  .  76 

Material  for  Anatomy .  76. 

Agriculture  and  Extension .  79 

Farmers’  Institutes  Authorized .  79 

Sale  of  Commercial  Fertilizer .  79 

University  Extension  Authorized .  79 

Pure  Seed  Law. .  79 

Inspection  of  Nurseries .  85 

Manufacture  and  Sale  of  Insecticides  and  Fungicides. .  89 

Sale  of  Concentrated  Feeding  Stuffs .  92 

Traveling  Schools  of  Agriculture .  94 

Further  Provisions  Relating  to  Sale  of  Concentrated 

Feeding  Stuffs  . .■ .  94 

Regulations  of  Public  Service  of  Stallions .  96 

Sale  of  Liquor  Forbidden  within  Certain  Distance  from 

University  Hall  .  105 

Colleges  of  State  may  be  made  Branches  of  the  University  105 
Admission  of  Graduates  of  Law  School  to  Supreme  Court. .  105 

Offenses  Against  Public  Policy... .  106 

Official  Malfeasance  .  106 

Laws  of  Wisconsin .  107 

Camp  Randall  Memorial  Park .  107 

Eradication  of  White  Grub  and  Grasshopper  Pests .  107 

BY  LAWS  OF  THE  REGENTS .  109 

Chapter  I — Meetings  and  Business  of  the  Regents .  109 

Chapter  II — Officers  of  the  Board  and  their  Duties .  110 

Chapter  III — Committees  of  the  Board  and  their  Duties .  117 

Chapter  IV — Finance  .  120 

Chapter  V — Trust  Funds  . 122 

Chapter  VI — Amendments  .  126 

LAWS  OF  THE  REGENTS .  127 

Chapter  I — Board  of  Visitors,  Power,  Appointment  and 

Duties  .  127 

Chapter  II — Officers  and  Employes  of  the  University .  129 

Chapter  III — Organization  and  Powers  of  the  Faculty .  137 

Chapter  IV — Calendar,  Fees,  Refunds,  Laboratory  Fees .  143 


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FACULTY  RULES  FOR  GOVERNMENT  AND  DISCIPLINE  OF 

STUDENTS  .  145 

Chapter  I — General  Regulations . . .  145 

Chapter  II— 

A.  Student  Court . .  147 

B.  Student  Judicial  Committee .  150 

Abridgement  of  Powers  of  Court  or  Committee .  151 

Chapter  III — Student  Organizations .  151 

Regulations  Governing  Social  Life .  151 

Regulations  Governing  Public  Exhibitions .  152 

Regulations  Governing  Eligibility .  153 

Regulations  Governing  Admission  into  Fraternities  and 

Sororities  .  153 

Chapter  IV — Athletics  .  154 

Chapter  V  .  157 


FEDERAL  LAWS 


GENERAL  LAND  GRANTS 


(U.  S.  25th  Congress,  2d  Session.  Statutes-at-Large,  Ch.  110.) 

AN  ACT  concerning  a  Seminary  of  Learning  in  the  Territory  of 
Wisconsin. 

Be  it  enacted  by  the  Senate  and  House  of  Representatives  of 
the  United  States  of  America,  in  Congress  Assembled.  That  the 
Secretary  of  the  Treasury  be,  and  he  is  hereby  authorized  to  set 
apart  and  reserve  from  sale,  out  of  any  of  the  public  lands  within 
the  Territory  of  Wisconsin,  to  which  the  Indian  title  has  been,  or 
may  be,  extinguished,  and  not  otherwise  appropriated,  a  quantity 
of  land  not  exceeding  two  entire  townships,  for  the  use  and  sup¬ 
port  of  a  University  within  said  Territory,  and  for  no  other  use 
or  purpose  whatsoever ;  to  be  located  in  tracts  of  land  of  not  less 
than  an  entire  section,  corresponding  with  any  of  the  legal  divi¬ 
sions  into  which  the  public  lands  are  authorized  to  be  surveyed. 

Approved  June  12,  1838. 


(U.  S.  33d  Congress,  2d  Session,  Statutes-at-Large,  Ch.  5.) 

AN  ACT  to  relinquish  to  the  State  of  Wisconsin  the  lands  re¬ 
served  for  Salt  Springs  therein. 

Be  it  enacted  by  the  Senate  and  House  of  Representatives  of 
the  United'  States  of  America ,  in  Congress  Assembled.  That  in 
lieu  of  the  “  twelve  salt  springs  with  six  sections  of  land  adjoin¬ 
ing  to  each,”  heretofore  granted  to  the  State  of  Wisconsin,  for  its 
use,  by  the  fourth  clause  of  the  seventh  section  of  the  act  entitled 
“An  Act  to  enable  the  people  of  Wisconsin  Territory  to  form  a 
constitution  and  state  government,  and  for  the  admission  of  such 
state  into  the  Union,”  approved  the  sixth  day  of  August,  in  the 
year  eighteen  hundred  and  forty-six,  there  be  and  hereby  is 
granted  to  the  said  state  of  Wisconsin,  to  be  selected  by  the  legis¬ 
lature  of  said  state,  out  of  any  public  land  subject  to  private  eip 


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try,  and  to  be  sold  in  such  manner  as  the  legislature  may  direct, 
for  the  benefit  and  in  aid  of  the  University  of  said  state,  and  for 
no  other  purpose  whatever,  seventy-two  sections  of  land ;  pro¬ 
vided ,  That  any  selections  of  land  heretofore  made  under  the 
act  entitled  ‘  ‘  An  Act  to  extend  the  time  for  selecting  land  granted 
to  the  state  of  Wisconsin  for  saline  purposes,”  approved  the 
fourth  day  of  May,  eighteen  hundred  and  fifty-two,  and  which 
shall  not  have  been  sold  by  the  United  States,  and  is  not  legally 
claimed  by  pre-emption  or  otherwise,  shall  be,  and  hereby  are 
granted  and  confirmed  to  said  state  for  the  use  of  the  University 
of  said  state,  as  a  part  of  the  seventy-two  sections  hereby 
granted. 

Approved  December  15,  1854. 


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AGRICULTURAL  COLLEGE  AND  EXPERIMENT  STA¬ 
TION  GRANTS 


First  Morrill  Act  Donating  Public  Lands 

AN  ACT  donating  public  lands  to  the  several  States  and  Terri¬ 
tories  which  may  provide  colleges  for  the  benefit  of  agricul¬ 
ture  and  the  mechanic  arts. 

Be  it  enacted  by  the  Senate  and  House  of  Representatives  of 
the  United  States  of  America  in  Congress  Assembled.  That  there 
be  granted  to  the  several  states,  for  the  purposes  hereinafter 
mentioned,  an  amount  of  public  land,  to  be  apportioned  to  each 
state  a  quantity  equal  to  thirty  thousand  acres  for  each  Senator 
and  Representative  in  Congress  to  which  the  states  are  respec¬ 
tively  entitled  by  the  apportionment  under  the  census  of  eigh¬ 
teen  hundred  and  sixty :  Provided,  That  no  mineral  lands  shall 
be  selected  or  purchased  under  the  provisions  of  this  act. 

Sec.  2.  And  be  it  further  enacted,  That  the  land  aforesaid, 
after  being  surveyed,  shall  be  apportioned  to  the  several  states 
in  sections  or  subdivisions  of  sections,  not  less  than  one-quarter  of 
a  section ;  and  whenever  there  are  public  lands  in  a  state  subject  to 
sale  at  private  entry  at  one  dollar  and  twenty-five  cents  per  acre, 
the  quantity  to  which  said  state  shall  be  entitled  shall  be  selected 
from  such  lands  wdthin  the  limits  of  such  state,  and  the  Secretary 
of  the  Interior  is  hereby  directed  to  issue  to  each  of  the  states  in 
which  there  is  not  the  quantity  of  public  lands  subject  to  sale  at 
private  entry  at  one  dollar  and  twrenty-five  cents  per  acre  to  which 
said  state  may  be  entitled  under  the  provisions  of  this  act  land 
scrip  to  the  amount  in  acres  for  the  deficiency  of  its  distributive 
share ;  said  scrip  to  be  sold  by  said  states  and  the  proceeds  thereof 


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applied  to  the  uses  and  purposes  prescribed  in  this  act  and  for  no 
other  use  or  purpose  whatsoever :  Provided,  That  in  no  case  shall 
any  state  to  which  land  scrip  may  thus  be  issued  be  allowed  to  lo¬ 
cate  the  same  within  the  limits  of  any  other  state  or  of  any  Terri¬ 
tory  of  the  United  States,  but  their  assignees  may  thus  locate  said 
land  scrip  upon  any  of  the  unappropriated  lands  of  the  United 
States  subject  to  sale  at  private  entry  at  one  dollar  and  twenty- 
five  cents,  or  less,  per  acre :  And  provided  further,  That  not  more 
than  one  million  acres  shall  be  located  by  such  assignees  in  any 
one  of  the  states:  And  provided  further ,  That  no  such  location 
shall  be  made  before  one  year  from  the  passage  of  this  act. 

Sec.  3.  And  be  it  further  enacted,  That  all  the  expenses  of 
management,  superintendence,  and  taxes  from  date  of  selection 
of  said  lands,  previous  to  their  sales,  and  all  expenses  incurred  in 
the  management  and  disbursement  of  the  moneys  which  may  be 
received  therefrom,  shall  be  paid  by  the  states  to  which  they  may 
belong,  out  of  the  treasury  of  said  states,  so  that  the  entire  pro¬ 
ceeds  of  the  sale  of  said  lands  shall  be  applied  without  any  dim¬ 
inution  whatever  to  the  purposes  hereinafter  mentioned. 

Sec.  4  (original).  And  be  it  further  enacted ,  That  all  moneys 
derived  from  the  sale  of  the  lands  aforesaid  by  the  states  to  which 
the  lands  are  apportioned,  and  from  the  sales  of  land  scrip  here¬ 
inbefore  provided  for,  shall  be  invested  in  stocks  of  the  United 
States  or  of  the  States,  or  some  other  safe  stocks,  yielding  not  less 
than  five  per  centum  upon  the  par  value  of  said  stocks ;  and  that 
the  moneys  so  invested  shall  constitute  a  perpetual  fund,  the  capi¬ 
tal  of  which  shall  remain  forever  undiminished  (except  so  far  as 
may  be  provided  in  section  five  of  this  act),  and  the  interest  of 
which  shall  be  inviolably  appropriated,  by  each  State  which  may 
take  and  claim  the  benefit  of  this  act,  to  the  endowment,  support, 
and  maintenance  of  at  least  one  college  where  the  leading  object 
shall  be,  without  excluding  other  scientific  and  classical  studies, 
and  including  military  tactics,  to  teach  such  branches  of  learning 
as  are  related  to  agriculture  and  the  mechanic  arts,  in  such  man¬ 
ner  as  the  legislature  of  the  States  may  respectively  prescribe,  in 
order  to  promote  the  liberal  and  practical  education  of  the  indus¬ 
trial  classes  in  the  several  pursuits  and  professions  in  life. 

Sec.  4  (as  amended  Mar.  3,  1883).  That  all  moneys  derived 
from  the  sale  of  lands  aforesaid  by  the  States  to  which  lands  are 
apportioned,  and  from  the  sales  of  land  scrip  hereinbefore  pro¬ 
vided  for,  shall  be  invested  in  stocks  of  the  United  States  or  of  the 
States,  or  some  other  safe  stocks ;  or  the  same  may  be  invested  by 
the  States  having  no  State  stocks  in  any  other  manner  after  the 
legislatures  of  such  States  shall  have  assented  thereto,  and  engaged 
that  such  funds  shall  yield  not  less  than  five  per  centum  upon  the 
amount  so  invested  and  that  the  principal  thereof  shall  forever 
remain  unimpaired :  Provided,  That  the  moneys  so  invested  or 
loaned  shall  constitute  a  perpetual  fund,  the  capital  of  which  shall 
remain  forever  undiminished  (except  so  far  as  may  be  provided 


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in  section  five  of  this  act),  and  the  interest  of  which  shall  be  in¬ 
violably  appropriated,  by  each  State  which  may  take  and  claim 
the  benefit  of  this  act,  to  the  endowment,  support,  and  mainten¬ 
ance  of  at  least  one  college  where  the  leading  object  shall  be, 
without  excluding  other  scientific  and  classical  studies,  and  in¬ 
cluding  military  tactics,  to  teach  such  branches  of  learning  as  are 
related  to  agriculture  and  the  mechanic  arts,  in  such  manner  as 
the  legislatures  of  the  States  may  respectively  prescribe,  in  order 
to  promote  the  liberal  and  practical  education  of  the  industrial 
classes  in  the  several  pursuits  and  professions  in  life. 

Sec.  5.  And  be  it  further  enacted,  That  the  grant  of  land  and 
land  scrip  hereby  authorized  shall  be  made  on  the  following  con¬ 
ditions,  to  which,  as  well  as  to  the  provisions  hereinbefore  con¬ 
tained,  the  previous  assent  of  the  several  States  shall  be  signified 
by  legislative  acts: 

First.  If  any  portion  of  the  fund  invested,  as  provided  by  the 
foregoing  section,  or  any  portion  of  the  interest  thereon,  shall, 
by  any  action  or  contingency,  be  diminished  or  lost,  it  shall  be  re¬ 
placed  by  the  State  to  which  it  belongs,  so  that  the  capital  of  the 
fund  shall  remain  forever  undiminished ;  and  the  annual  interest 
shall  be  regularly  applied  without  diminution  to  the  purposes 
mentioned  in  the  fourth  section  of  this  act,  except  that  a  sum, 
not  exceeding  ten  per  centum  upon  the  amount  received  by  any 
State  under  the  provisions  of  this  act,  may  be  expended  for  the 
purchase  of  lands  for  sites  or  experimental  farms  whenever 
authorized  by  the  respective  legislatures  of  said  States. 

Second.  No  portion  of  said  fund,  nor  the  interest  thereon,  shall 
be  applied,  directly  or  indirectly,  under  any  pretense  whatever, 
to  the  purchase,  erection,  preservation,  or  repair  of  any  building 
or  buildings. 

Third.  Any  State  which  may  take  and  claim  the  benefit  of  the 
provisions  of  this  act  shall  provide,  within  five  years,  at  least  not 
less  than  one  college,  as  described  in  the  fourth  section  of  this 
act,  or  the  grant  to  such  State  shall  cease ;  and  said  State  shall  be 
bound  to  pay  the  United  States  the  amount  received  of  any  lands 
previously  sold  and  that  the  title  to  purchasers  under  the  State 
shall  be  valid. 

Fourth.  An  annual  report  shall  be  made  regarding  the  prog¬ 
ress  of  each  college,  recording  any  improvements  and  experi¬ 
ments  made,  with  their  cost  and  results,  and  such  other  matters, 
including  State  industrial  and  economical  statistics,  as  may  be 
supposed  useful,  one  copy  of  which  shall  be  transmitted  by  mail 
free,  by  each,  to  all  the  other  colleges  which  may  be  endowed  un¬ 
der  the  provisions  of  this  act,  and  also  one  copy  to  the  Secretary 
of  the  Interior. 

Fifth.  When  lands  shall  be  selected  from  those  which  have 
been  raised  to  double  the  minimum  price,  in  consequence  of  rail¬ 
road  grants,  they  shall  be  computed  to  the  States  at  the  maxi¬ 
mum  price  and  the  number  of  acres  proportionately  diminished. 


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Sixth.  No  state  while  in  a  condition  of  rebellion  or  insurrec¬ 
tion  against  the  Government  of  the  United  States  shall  be  en¬ 
titled  to  the  benefit  of  this  act. 

Seventh.  No  State  shall  be  entitled  to  the  benefits  of  this  act 
unless  it  shall  express  its  acceptance  thereof  by  its  legislature 
within  two^years  from  the  date  of  its  approval  by  the  President. 

Sec.  6.  And  be  it  further  enacted ,  That  land  scrip  issued  un¬ 
der  the  provisions  of  this  act  shall  not  be  subject  to  location  un¬ 
til  after  the  first  day  of  January,  one  thousand  eight  hundred 
and  sixty-three. 

Sec.  7.  And  be  it  further  enacted ,  That  the  land  officers  shall 
receive  the  same  fees  for  locating  land  scrip  issued  under  the 
provisions  of  this  act  as  is  now  allowed  for  the  location  of  mili¬ 
tary  bounty  land  warrants  under  existing  laws:  Provided ,  That 
their,  maximum  compensation  shall  not  be  thereby  increased. 

Sec.  8.  And  be  it  further  enacted ,  That  the  governors  of  the 
several  States  to  which  scrip  shall  be  issued  under  this  act  shall 
be  required  to  report  annually  to  Congress  all  sales  made  of  such 
scrip  until  the  whole  shall  be  disposed  of,  the  amount  received 
for  the  same,  and  what  appropriation  has  been  made  of  the  pro¬ 
ceeds. 

Approved,  July  2,  1862  (12  Stat.  L.,  503). 


Second  Morrill  Act  Appropriating  Money  from  Sale  of 
Public  Lands 

AN  ACT  To  apply  a  portion  of  the  proceeds  of  the  public  lands 
to  the  more  complete  endowment  and  support  of  the  col¬ 
leges  for  the  benefit  of  agriculture  and  the  mechanic  arts 
established  under  the  provisions  of  an  act  of  Congress  ap¬ 
proved  July  second,  eighteen  hundred  and  sixty -two. 

Be  it  enacted  by  the  Senate  and  House  of  Representatives  of 
the  United  States  of  America  in  Congress  assembled ,  That  there 
shall  be,  and  hereby  is,  annually  appropriated,  out  of  any  money 
in  the  Treasury  not  otherwise  appropriated,  arising  from  the 
sales  of  public  lands,  to  be  paid  as  hereinafter  provided,  to  each 
State  and  Territory  for  the  more  complete  endowment  and  main¬ 
tenance  of  colleges  for  the  benefit  of  agriculture  and  the  me¬ 
chanic  arts  now  established,  or  which  may  be  hereafter  estab¬ 
lished,  in  accordance  with  an  act  of  Congress  approved  July  sec¬ 
ond,  eighteen  hundred  and  sixty- two,  the  sum  of  fifteen  thousand 
dollars  for  the  year  ending  June  thirtieth,  eighteen  hundred  and 
ninety,  and  an  annual  increase  of  the  amount  of  such  appropria¬ 
tion  thereafter  for  ten  years  by  an  additional  sum  of  one  thou¬ 
sand  dollars  over  the  preceding  year,  and  the  annual  amount  to 
be  paid  thereafter  to  each  State  and  Territory  shall  be  twenty- 
five  thousand  dollars,  to  be  applied  only  to  instruction  in  agri- 


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culture,  the  mechanic  arts,  the  English  language,  and  the  various 
branches  of  mathematical,  physical,  natural,  and  economic  sci¬ 
ence,  with  special  reference  to  their  application  in  the  industries 
of  life  and  to  the  facilities  for  such  instruction ;  Provided,  That 
no  money  shall  be  paid  out  under  this  act  to  any  State  or  Terri¬ 
tory  for  the  support  and  maintenance  of  a  college  where  a  dis¬ 
tinction  of  race  or  color  is  made  in  the  admission  of  students,  but 
the  establishment  and  maintenance  of  such  colleges  separately 
for  white  and  colored  students  shall  he  held  to  be  a  compliance 
with  the  provisions  of  this  act  if  the  funds  received  in  such  State 
or  Territory  be  equitably  divided  as  hereinafter  set  forth :  Pro¬ 
vided,  That  in  any  State  in  which  there  has  been  one  college  es¬ 
tablished  in  pursuance  of  the  act  of  July  second,  eighteen  hun¬ 
dred  and  sixty-two,  and  also  in  which  an  educational  institution 
of  like  character  has  been  established,  or  may  be  hereafter  estab¬ 
lished,  and  is  now  aided  by  such  State  from  its  own  revenue,  for 
the  education  of  colored  students  in  agriculture  and  the  me¬ 
chanic  arts,  however  named  or  styled,  or  whether  or  not  it  has 
received  money  heretofore  under  the  act  to  which  this  act  is  an 
amendment,  the  legislature  of  such  State  may  propose  and  re¬ 
port  to  the  Secretary  of  the  Interior  a  just  and  equitable  division 
of  the  fund  to  be  received  under  this  act,  between  one  college  for 
white  students  and  one  institution  for  colored  students,  estab¬ 
lished  as  aforesaid,  which  shall  be  divided  into  two  parts,  and 
paid  accordingly,  and  thereupon  such  institution  for  colored 
students  shall  be  entitled  to  the  benefits  of  this  act  and  subject 
to  its  provisions,  as  much  as  it  would  have  been  if  it  had  been 
included  under  the  act  of  eighteen  hundred  and  sixty-two,  and 
the  fulfillment  of  the  foregoing  provisions  shall  be  taken  as  a 
compliance  with  the  provision  in  reference  to  separate  colleges 
for  white  and  colored  students. 

Sec.  2.  That  the  sums  hereby  appropriated  to  the  States  and 
Territories  for  the  further  endowment  and  support  of  colleges 
shall  be  annually  paid  on  or  before  the  thirty-first  day  of  July 
of  each  year,  by  the  Secretary  of  the  Treasury,  upon  the  war¬ 
rant  of  the  Secretary  of  the  Interior,  out  of  the  Treasury  of  the 
United  States,  to  the  State  or  Territorial  treasurer,  or  to  such 
officer  as  shall  be  designated  by  the  laws  of  such  State  or  Terri¬ 
tory  to  receive  the  same,  who  shall,  upon  the  order  of  the  trus¬ 
tees  of  the  college  or  the  institution  for  colored  students,  imme¬ 
diately  pay  over  said  sums  to  the  treasurers  of  the  respective  col¬ 
leges  or  other  institutions  entitled  to  receive  the  same,  and  such 
treasurers  shall  be  required  to  report  to  the  Secretary  of  Agri¬ 
culture  and  to  the  Secretary  of  the  Interior,  on  or  before  the  first 
day  of  September  of  each  year,  a  detailed  statement  of  the 
amount  so  received  and  of  its  disbursement.  The  grants  of 
moneys  authorized  by  this  act  are  made  subject  to  the  legislative 
assent  of  the  several  States  and  Territories  to  the  purpose  of  said 
grants :  Provided,  That  payments  of  such  installments  of  the  ap- 


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propriation  herein  made  as  shall  become  due  to  any  State  before 
the  adjournment  of  the  regular  session  of  legislature  meeting 
next  after  the  passage  of  this  act  shall  be  made  upon  the  assent 
of  the  governor  thereof,  duly  certified  to  the  Secretary  of  the 
Treasury. 

Sec.  3.  That  if  any  portion  of  the  moneys  received  by  the 
designated  officer  of  the  State  or  Territory  for  the  further  and 
more  complete  endowment,  support,  and  maintenance  of  colleges, 
or  of  institutions  for  colored  students,  as  provided  in  this  act, 
shall,  by  any  action  or  contingency,  be  dismissed  or  lost,  or  be 
misapplied,  it  shall  be  replaced  by  the  State  or  Territory  to 
which  it  belongs,  and  until  so  replaced  no  subsequent  appropria¬ 
tion  shall  be  apportioned  or  paid  to  such  State  or  Territory ;  and 
no  portion  of  said  moneys  shall  be  applied,  directly  or  indirectly, 
under  any  pretense  whatever,  to  the  purchase,  erection,  preser¬ 
vation,  or  repair  of  any  building  or  buildings.  An  annual  re¬ 
port  by  the  president  of  each  of  said  colleges  shall  be  made  to  the 
Secretary  of  Agriculture,  as  well  as  to  the  Secretary  of  the  In¬ 
terior,  regarding  the  condition  and  progress  of  each  college,  in¬ 
cluding  statistical  information  in  relation  to  its  receipts  and  ex¬ 
penditures,  its  library,  the  number  of  its  students  and  professors, 
and  also  as  to  any  improvements  and  experiments  made  under 
the  direction  of  any  experiment  stations  attached  to  said  col¬ 
leges,  with  their  cost  and  results  and  such  other  industrial  and 
economical  statistics  as  may  be  regarded  as  useful,  one  copy 
of  which  shall  be  transmitted  by  mail  free  to  all  other  colleges 
further  endowed  under  this  act. 

Sec.  4.  That  on  or  before  the  first  day  of  July  in  each  year, 
after  the  passage  of  this  act,  the  Secretary  of  the  Interior  shall 
ascertain  and  certify  to  the  Secretary  of  the  Treasury  as  to  each 
State  and  Territory  whether  it  is  entitled  to  receive  its  share  of 
the  annual  appropriation  for  colleges,  or  of  institutions  for 
colored  students,  under  this  act,  and  the  amount  which  there¬ 
upon  each  is  entitled,  respectively,  to  receive.  If  the  Secretary 
of  the  Interior  shall  withhold  a  certificate  from  any  State  or  Ter¬ 
ritory  of  its  appropriation,  the  facts  and  reasons  therefor  shall 
be  reported  to  the  President,  and  the  amount  involved  shall  be 
kept  separate  in  the  Treasury  until  the  close  of  the  next  Con¬ 
gress,  in  order  that  the  State  or  Territory  may,  if  it  should  so 
desire,  appeal  to  Congress  from  the  determination  of  the  Secre¬ 
tary  of  the  Interior.  If  the  next  Congress  shall  not  direct  such 
sum  to  be  paid,  it  shall  be  covered  into  the  Treasury.  And  the 
Secretary  of  the  Interior  is  hereby  charged  with  the  proper  ad¬ 
ministration  of  this  law. 

Sec.  5.  That  the  Secretary  of  the  Interior  shall  annually  re¬ 
port  to  Congress  the  disbursements  which  have  been  made  in  all 
the  States  and  Territories,  and  also  whether  the  appropriation 
of  any  State  or  Territory  has  been  withheld,  and,  if  so,  the  rea¬ 
sons  therefor. 


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Sec.  6.  Congress  may  at  any  time  amend,  suspend,  or  repeal 
any  or  all  of  the  provisions  of  this  act. 

Approved,  August  30,  1890  (26  Stat.  L.,  417). 


Nelson  Amendment  to  Second  Morrill  Act 

*  *  *  That  there  shall  be,  and  hereby  is,  annually  appro¬ 

priated,  out  of  any  money  in  the  Treasury  not  otherwise  appro¬ 
priated,  to  be  paid  as  hereinafter  provided,  to  each  State  and 
Territory  for  the  more  complete  endowment  and  maintenance 
of  agricultural  colleges  now  established,  or  which  may  hereafter 
be  established,  in  accordance  with  the  act  of  Congress  approved 
July  second,  eighteen  hundred  and  sixty-two,  and  the  act  of  Con¬ 
gress  approved  August  thirtieth,  eighteen  hundred  and  ninety, 
the  sum  of  five  thousand  dollars,  in  addition  to  the  sums  named 
in  the  said  act,  for  the  fiscal  year  ending  June  thirtieth,  nineteen 
hundred  and  eight,  and  an  annual  increase  of  the  amount  of  such 
appropriation  thereafter  for  four  years  by  an  additional  sum 
of  five  thousand  dollars  over  the  preceding  year,  and  the  annual 
sum  to  be  paid  thereafter  to  each  State  and  Territory  shall  be 
fifty  thousand  dollars,  to  be  applied  only  for  the  purposes  of  the 
agricultural  colleges  as  defined  and  limited  in  the  act  of  Con¬ 
gress  approved  July  second,  eighteen  hundred  and  sixty-two, 
and  the  act  of  Congress  approved  August  thirtieth,  eighteen 
hundred  and  ninety. 

That  the  sum  hereby  appropriated  to  the  States  and  Terri¬ 
tories  for  the  further  endowment  and  support  of  the  colleges 
shall  be  paid  by,  to,  and  in  the  manner  prescribed  by  the  act  of 
Congress  approved  August  thirtieth,  eighteen  hundred  and 
ninety,  entitled  “An  act  to  apply  a  portion  of  the  proceeds  of 
the  public  lands  to  the  more  complete  endowment  and  support 
of  the  colleges  for  the  benefit  of  agriculture  and  the  mechanic 
arts  established  under  the  provisions  of  an  act  of  Congress  ap¬ 
proved  July  second,  eighteen  hundred  and  sixty-two,”  and  the 
expenditure  of  the  said  money  shall  be  governed  in  all  respects 
by  the  provisions  of  the  said  act  of  Congress  approved  July  sec¬ 
ond,  eighteen  hundred  and  sixty-two,  and  the  said  act  of  Congress 
approved  August  thirtieth,  eighteen  hundred  and  ninety:  Pro¬ 
vided,  That  said  colleges  may  use  a  portion  of  this  money  for 
providing  courses  for  the  special  preparation  of  instructors  for 
teaching  the  elements  of  agriculture  and  the  mechanic  arts. 

Approved,  March  4,  1907  (34  Stat.  L.,  1256,  1281). 


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Acts  Providing  for  Detail  of  United  States  Army  and  Navy 

Officers. 

[Act  of  1888.] 

AN  ACT  To  amend  section  twelve  hundred  and  twenty-five  of 
the  Revised  Statutes,  concerning  details  of  officers  of  the 
Army  and  Navy  to  educational  institutions,  and  so  forth. 

Be  it  enacted  by  the  Senate  and  House  of  Representatives  of 
the  United  States  of  America  in  Congress  assembled ,  That  sec¬ 
tion  twelve  hundred  and  twenty-five  of  the  Revised  Statutes  of 
the  United  States,  as  amended  by  an  act  of  Congress  approved 
July  fifth,  eighteen  hundred  and  eighty-four,  he,  and  the  same  is 
hereby,  further  amended,  so  as  to  'read  as  follows : 

“Sec.  1225.  The  President  may,  upon  the  application  of  any 
established  military  institute,  seminary  or  academy,  college  or 
university,  within  the  United  States  having  capacity  to  educate 
at  the  same  time  not  less  than  one  hundred  and  fifty  male  stu¬ 
dents,  detail  an  officer  of  the  Army  or  Navy  to  act  as  superin¬ 
tendent  or  professor  thereof ;  but  the  number  of  officers  so  de¬ 
tailed  shall  not  exceed  fifty  from  the  Army  and  ten  from  the 
Navy,  being  a  maximum  of  sixty,  at  any  time,  and  they  shall  be 
apportioned  throughout  the  United  States,  first,  to  those  State 
institutions  applying  for  such  detail  that  are  required  to  provide 
instruction  in  military  tactics  under  the  provisions  of  the  act  of 
Congress  of  July  second,  eighteen  hundred  and  sixty-two,  donat¬ 
ing  lands  for  the  establishment  of  colleges  where  the  leading  ob¬ 
ject  shall  be  the  practical  instruction  of  the  industrial  classes  in 
agriculture  and  the  mechanic  arts,  including  military  tactics; 
and  after  that,  said  details  to  he  distributed,  as  nearly  as  may  be 
practicable,  according  to  population.  The  Secretary  of  War  is 
authorized  to  issue,  at  his  discretion  and  under  proper  regula¬ 
tions  to  be  prescribed  by  him,  out  of  ordnance  and  ordnance 
stores  belonging  to  the  Government,  and  which  can  be  spared 
for  that  purpose,  such  number  of  the  same  as  may  appear  to  be 
required  for  military  instruction  and  practice  by  the  students 
of  any  college  or  university  under  the  provisions  of  this  section, 
and  the  Secretary  shall  require  a  bond  in  each  case,  in  double 
the  value  of  the  property,  for  the  care  and  safe-keeping  thereof 
and  for  the  return  of  the  same  when  required :  Provided,  That 
nothing  in  this  act  shall  be  so  construed  as  to  prevent  the  detail 
of  officers  of  the  Engineer  Corps  of  the  Navy  as  professors  in 
scientific  schools  or  colleges,  as  now  provided  by  act  of  Congress 
approved  February  twenty-sixth,  eighteen  hundred  and  seventy- 
nine,  entitled  ‘An  act  to  promote  a  knowledge  of  steam  engineer¬ 
ing  and  iron-ship  building  among  the  students  of  scientific 
schools  or  colleges  in  the  United  States’;  and  the  Secretary  of 
War  is  hereby  authorized  to  issue  ordnance  and  ordnance  stores 


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belonging  to  the  Government  on  the  terms  and  conditions  here¬ 
inbefore  provided  to  any  college  or  university  at  which  a  retired 
officer  of  the  Army  may  be  assigned  as  provided  by  section  twelve 
hundred  and  sixty  of  the  Revised  Statutes. 

“Sec.  2.  That  the  said  section  twelve  hundred  and  twenty- 
five  of  the  Revised  Statutes  of  the  United  States,  as  amended  by 
the  said  act  of  Congress  approved  July  fifth,  eighteen  hundred 
and  eighty-four,  and  all  acts  and  parts  of  acts  inconsistent  or  in 
conflict  with  the  provisions  of  this  act,  be,  and  the  same  are 
hereby,  repealed,  saving  always,  however,  all  acts  and  things  done 
under  the  said  amended  section  as  heretofore  existing.’ ’ 

Approved,  September  26,  1888.  (25  Stat.  L.,  491.) 

[Act  of  1891.] 

AN  ACT  To  amend  section  twelve  hundred  and  twenty-five  of 
the  Revised  Statutes,  concerning  details  of  officers  of  the 
Army  and  Navy  to  educational  institutions. 

Be  it  enacted  by  the  Senate  and  House  of  Representatives  of 
the  United  States  of  America  in  Congress  assembled,  That  section 
twelve  hundred  and  twenty-five  of  the  Revised  Statutes,  concern¬ 
ing  details  of  officers  of  the  Army  and  Navy  to  educational  insti¬ 
tutions,  be,  and  the  same  is  hereby,  amended  so  as  to  permit  the 
President  to  detail,  under  the  provisions  of  said  act,  not  to  exceed 
seventy-five  officers  of  the  Army  of  the  United  States;  and  the 
maximum  number  of  officers  of  the  Army  and  Navy  to  be  detailed 
at  any  one  time  under  the  provisions  of  the  act  passed  September 
twenty-sixth,  eighteen  hundred  and  eighty-eight,  amending  said 
section  twelve  hundred  and  twenty-five  of  the  Revised  Statutes,  is 
hereby  increased  to  eightv-five :  Provided,  That  no  officer  shall  be 
detailed  to  or  maintained  at  any  of  the  educational  institutions 
mentioned  in  said  act  where  instruction  and  drill  in  military  tac¬ 
tics  is  not  given :  Provided  further ,  That  nothing  in  this  act  shall 
be  so  construed  as  to  prevent  the  detail  of  officers  of  the  Engineer 
Corps  of  the  Navy  as  professors  in  scientific  schools  or  colleges  as 
now  provided  by  act  of  Congress  approved  February  twenty- 
sixth,  eighteen  hundred  and  seventy-nine,  entitled  “An  act  to 
promote  a  knowledge  of  steam  engineering  and  iron-ship  building 
among  the  students  of  scientific  schools  or  colleges  in  the  United 
States.” 

Approved,  January  13,  1891  (26  Stat.  L.,  716). 


Act  Constituting  Land  Grant  College  Depositories  for  Pub¬ 
lic  Documents 

“All  land-grant  colleges  shall  be  constituted  as  depositories  for 
public  documents,  subject  to  the  provisions  and  limitations  of  the 
depository  laws.” 

Approved,  March  1, 1907. 


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Hatch  Act,  Establishing  Agricultural  Experiment  Station. 

AN  ACT  To  establish  agricultural  experiment  stations  in  connec¬ 
tion  with  the  colleges  established  in  the  several  States  under 
the  provisions  of  an  act  approved  July  second,  eighteen  hun¬ 
dred  and  sixty-two,  and  of  the  acts  supplementary  thereto. 

Be  it  enacted  by  the  Senate  and  House  of  Representatives  of 
the  United  States  of  America  in  Congress  assembled ,  That  in  or¬ 
der  to  aid  in  acquiring  and  diffusing  among  the  people  of  the 
United  States  useful  and  practical  information  on  subjects  con¬ 
nected  with  agriculture,  and  to  promote  scientific  investigation 
and  experiment  respecting  the  principles  and  applications  of  agri¬ 
cultural  science,  there  shall  be  established  under  direction  of  the 
college  or  colleges  or  agricultural  department  of  colleges  in  each 
State  or  Territory  established,  or  which  may  hereafter  be  estab- 
ished,  in  accordance  with  the  provisions  of  an  act  approved  July 
second,  eighteen  hundred  and  sixty- two,  entitled  ”An  act  donat¬ 
ing  public  lands  to  the  several  States  and  Territories  which  may 
provide  colleges  for  the  benefit  of  agriculture  and  the  mechanic 
arts,  ’  ’  or  any  of  the  supplements  to  said  act,  a  department  to  be 
known  and  designated  as  an  ‘ 1  agricutural  experiment  station”: 
Provided,  That  in  any  State  or  Territory  in  whcih  two  such  col¬ 
leges  have  been  or  may  be  so  established  the  appropriation  herein¬ 
after  made  to  such  State  or  Territory  shall  be  equally  divided  be¬ 
tween  such  colleges,  unless  the  legislature  of  such  State  or  Terri¬ 
tory  shall  otherwise  direct. 

Sec.  2.  That  it  shall  be  the  object  and  duty  of  said  experiment 
stations  to  conduct  original  researches  or  verify  experiments  on 
the  physiology  of  plants  and  animals ;  the  diseases  to  which  they 
are  severally  subject,  with  the  remedies  of  the  same ;  the  chemical 
composition  of  useful  plants  at  their  different  stages  of  growth ; 
the  comparative  advantages  of  rotative  cropping  as  pursued  un¬ 
der  the  varying  series  of  crops ;  the  capacity  of  new  plants  or 
trees  for  acclimation ;  the  analysis  of  soils  and  water ;  the  chemi¬ 
cal  composition  of  manures,  natural  or  artificial,  with  experi¬ 
ments  designed  to  test  the  comparative  effects  on  crops  of  differ¬ 
ent  kinds ;  the  adaptation  and  value  of  grasses  and  forage  plants ; 
the  composition  and  digestibility  of  the  different  kinds  of  food 
for  domestic  animals;  the  scientific  and  economic  questions  in¬ 
volved  in  the  production  of  butter  and  cheese;  and  such  other 
researches  or  experiments  bearing  directly  on  the  agricultural 
industry  of  the  United  States  as  may  in  each  case  be  deemed  ad¬ 
visable,  having  due  regard  to  the  varying  conditions  and  needs 
of  the  respective  States  or  Territories. 

Sec.  3.  That  in  order  to  secure,  as  far  as  practicable,  uniform¬ 
ity  of  methods  and  results  in  the  work  of  said  stations,  it  shall 
be  the  duty  of  the  United  States  Commissioner  [now  Secretary] 


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of  Agriculture  to  furnish  forms,  as  far  as  practicable,  for  the 
tabulation  of  results  of  investigation  or  experiments ;  to  indicate 
from  time  to  time  such  lines  of  inquiry  as  to  him  shall  seem  most 
important,  and,  in  general,  to  furnish  such  advice  and  assistance 
as  will  best  promote  the  purpose  of  this  act.  It  shall  be  the  duty 
of  each  of  said  stations  annually,  on  or  before  the  first  day  of 
February,  to  make  to  the  governor  of  the  State  or  Territory  in 
which  it  is  lpcated  a  full  and  detailed  report  of  its  operations, 
including  a  statement  of  receipts  and  expenditures,  a  copy  of 
which  report  shall  he  sent  to  each  of  said  stations,  to  the  said 
Commissioner  [now  Secretary]  of  Agriculture,  and  to  the  Secre¬ 
tary  of  the  Treasury  of  the  United  States. 

Sec.  4.  That  bulletins  or  reports  of  progress  shall  be  pub¬ 
lished  at  said  stations  at  least  once  in  three  months,  one  copy  of 
which  shall  be  sent  to  each  newspaper  in  the  States  or  Territories 
in  which  they  are  respectively  located,  and  to  such  individuals 
actually  engaged  in  farming  as  may  request  the  same  and  as  far 
as  the  means  of  the  station  will  permit.  Such  bulletins  or  re¬ 
ports  and  the  annual  reports  of  said  stations  shall  be  transmitted 
in  the  mails  of  the  United  States  free  of  charge  for  postage,  un¬ 
der  such  regulations  as  the  Postmaster  General  may  from  time 
to  time  prescribe. 

Sec.  5.  That  for  the  purpose  of  paying  the  necessary  expenses 
of  conducting  investigations  and  experiments  and  printing  and 
distributing  the  results  as  hereinbefore  prescribed,  the  sum  of  fif¬ 
teen  thousand  dollars  per  annum  is  hereby  appropriated  to  each 
State,  to  be  specially  provided  for  by  Congress  in  the  appropria¬ 
tions  from  year  to  year,  and  to  each  Territory  entitled  under  the 
provisions  of  section  eight  of  this  act,  out  of  any  money  in  the 
Treasury  proceeding  from  the  sales  of  public  lands,  to  be  paid 
in  equal  quarterly  payments  on  the  first  day  of  January,  April, 
July,  and  October  in  each  year,  to  the  treasurer  or  other  officer 
duly  appointed  by  the  governing  boards  of  said  colleges  to  re¬ 
ceive  the  same,  the  first  payment  to  be  made  on  the  first  day  of 
October,  eighteen  hundred  and  eighty-seven :  Provided ,  however , 
That  out  of  the  first  annual  appropriation  so  received  by  any 
station  an  amount  not  exceeding  one-fifth  may  be  expended  in 
the  erection,  enlargement,  or  repair  of  a  building  or  buildings 
necessary  for  carrying  on  the  work  of  such  station ;  and  there¬ 
after  an  amount  not  exceeding  five  per  centum  for  such  annual 
appropriation  may  be  so  expended. 

Sec.  6.  That  whenever  it  shall  appear  to  the  Secretary  of  the 
Treasury  from  the  annual  statement  of  receipts  and  expendi¬ 
tures  of  any  of  said  stations  that  a  portion  of  the  preceding  an¬ 
nual  appropriation  remains  unexpended,  such  amount  shall  be 
deducted  from  the  next  succeeding  annual  apropriation  to  such 
station,  in  order  that  the  amount  of  money  appropriated  to  any 
station  shall  not  exceed  the  amount  actually  and  necessarily  re¬ 
quired  for  its  maintenance  and  support. 


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Sec.  7.  That  nothing  in  this  act  shall  be  construed  to  impair 
or  modify  the  legal  relation  existing  between  any  of  the  said 
.  colleges  and  the  government  of  the  States  or  Territories  in  which 
they  are  respectively  located. 

Sec.  8.  That  in  States  having  colleges  entitled  under  this  sec¬ 
tion  to  the  benefits  of  this  act  and  having  also  agricultural  ex¬ 
periment  stations  established  by  law  separate  from  said  colleges, 
such  States  shall  be  authorized  to  apply  such  benefits  to  experi¬ 
ments  at  stations  so  established  by  such  States;  and  in  case  any 
State  shall  have  established,  under  the  provisions  of  said  act  of 
July  second  aforesaid,  an  agricultural  department  or  experi¬ 
mental  station  in  connection  with  any  university,  college,  or  in¬ 
stitution  not  distinctly  an  agricultural  college  or  school,  and 
such  State  shall  have  established  or  shall  hereafter  establish  a 
separate  agricultural  college  or  school,  which  shall  have  con¬ 
nected  therewith  an  experimental  farm  or  station,  the  legislature 
of  such  State  may  apply  in  whole  or  in  part  the  appropriation 
by  this  act  made  to  such  separate  agricultural  college  or  school, 
and  no  legislature  shall  by  contract,  express  or  implied,  disable 
itself  from  so  doing. 

Sec.  9.  That  the  grants  of  moneys  authorized  by  this  act  are 
made  subject  to  the  legislative  assent  of  the  several  States  and 
Territories  to  the  purposes  of  said  grants:  Provided,  That  pay¬ 
ment  of  such  installments  of  the  appropriation  herein  made  as 
shall  become  due  to  any  State  before  the  adjournment  of  the 
regular  session  of  its  legislature  meeting  next  after  the  passage 
of  this  act  shall  be  made  upon  the  assent  of  the  governor  thereof 
duly  certified  to  the  Secretary  of  the  Treasury. 

Sec.  10.  Nothing  in  this  act  shall  be  held  or  construed  as  bind¬ 
ing  the  United  States  to  continue  any  payments  from  the  Treas¬ 
ury  to  any  or  all  the  States  or  institutions  mentioned  in  this  act, 
but  Congress  may  at  any  time  amend,  suspend,  or  repeal  any  or 
all  the  provisions  of  this  act. 

Approved,  March  2,  1887  (24  Stat.  L.,  440). 


Amendment  to  Hatch  Act  Requiring  Legislative  Assent. 

AN  ACT  To  amend  an  act  entitled  “An  act  to  establish  agricul¬ 
tural  stations  in  connection  with  the  colleges  established  in 
the  several  States  under  the  provisions  of  an  act  approved 
July  second,  eighteen  hundred  and  sixty-two,  and  the  acts 
supplementary  thereto.  ’  ’ 

Be  it  enacted  by  the  Senate  and  House  of  Representatives  of 
the  United  States  of  America  in  Congress  assembled,  That  the 
grant  of  money  authorized  by  the  act  of  Congress  entitled  “An 
act  to  establish  agricultural  experiment  stations  in  connection 
with  the  colleges  established  in  the  several  States  under  the  pro- 


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visions  of  an  act  approved  July'  second,  eighteen  hundred  and 
sixty-two,  and  of  acts  supplementary  thereto,”  are  subject  as 
therein  provided  to  the  legislative  assent  of  the  States  or  Terri¬ 
tories  to  be  affected  thereby;  but  as  to  such  installments  of  the 
appropriations  as  may  be  now  due  or  may  hereafter  become  due, 
when  the  legislature  may  not  be  in  session,  the  governor  of  said 
State  or  Territory  may  make  the  assent  therein  provided,  and  up¬ 
on  a  duly  certified  copy  thereof  to  the  Secretary  of  the  Treasury 
he  shall  cause  the  same  to  be  paid  in  the  manner  provided  in  the 
act  of  which  this  is  amendatory,  until  the  termination  of  the  next 
regular  session  of  the  legislature  of  such  State  and  Territory. 

Approved,  June  7,  1888  (25  Stat.  L.,  176). 


Amendment  to  Hatch  Act  Providing  for  Soil  Surveys. 

That,  as  far  as  practicable,  all  such  stations  shall  devote  a 
portion  of  their  work  to  the  examination  and  classification  of 
soils  of  their  respective  States  and  Territories,  with  a  view  to 
securing  more  extended  knowledge  and  better  development  of 
their  agricultural  capabilities. 

Approved,  March  2,  1889  (25  Stat.  L.,  841). 


Adams  Act  Providing  Increased  Appropriations  for  Experi¬ 
ment  Stations. 

AN  ACT  to  provide  for  an  increased  annual  appropriation  for 
agricultural  experiment  stations  and  regulating  the  ex¬ 
penditure  thereof. 

Be  it  enacted  by  the  Senate  and  House  of  Representatives  of 
the  United  States  of  America  in  Congress  assembled,  That 
there  shall  be,  and  hereby  is,  annually  appropriated,  out  of 
any  money  in  the  Treasury  not  otherwise  appropriated,  to  be 
paid  as  hereinafter  provided,  to  each  State  and  Territory,  for 
the  more  complete  endowment  and  maintenance  of  agricul¬ 
tural  experiment  stations  now  established  or  which  may  here¬ 
after  be  established  in  accordance  with  the  act  of  Congress  ap¬ 
proved  March  second,  eighteen  hundred  and  eighty-seven,  the 
sum  of  five  thousand  dollars  in  addition  to  the  sum  named  in 
said  act  for  the  year  ending  June  thirtieth,  nineteen  hundred 
and  six,  and  an  annual  increase  of  the  amount  of  such  appro¬ 
priation  thereafter  for  five  years  by  an  additional  sum  of  two 
thousand  dollars  over  the  preceding  year,  and  the  annual 
amount  to  be  paid  thereafter  to  each  State  or  Territory  shall  be 
thirty  thousand  dollars,  to  be  applied  only  to  paying  the  neces¬ 
sary  expenses  of  conducting  original  researches  or  experiments 
bearing  directly  on  the  agricultural  industry  of  the  United 


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States,  having  due  regard  to  the  varying  conditions  and  needs 
of  the  respective  States  or  Territories. 

Sec.  2.  That  the  sums  hereby  appropriated  to  the  States 
and  Territories  for  the  further  endowment  and  support  of  agri¬ 
cultural  experiment  stations  shall  be  annually  paid  in  equal 
quarterly  payments  on  the  first  day  of  January,  April,  July, 
and  October  of  each  year  by  the  Secretary  of  the  Treasury, 
upon  the  warrant  of  the  Secretary  of  Agriculture,  out  of  the 
Treasury  of  the  United  States,  to  the  treasurer  or  other  offi¬ 
cer  duly  appointed  by  the  governing  boards  of  said  experi¬ 
ment  stations  to  receive  the  same,  and  such  officers  shall  be 
required  to  report  to  the  Secretary  of  Agriculture  on  or  be¬ 
fore  the  first  day  of  September  of  each  year  a  detailed  state¬ 
ment  of  the  amount  so  received  and  of  its  disbursement,  on 
schedules  prescribed  by  the  Secretary  of  Agriculture.  The 
grants  of  money  authorized  by  this  act  are  made  subject  to 
legislative  assent  of  the  several  States  and  Territories  to  the 
purpose  of  said  grants :  Provided ,  That  payment  of  such  install¬ 
ments  of  the  appropriation  herein  made  as  shall  become  due 
to  any  State  or  Territory  before  the  adjournment  of  the  regu¬ 
lar  session  of  legislature  meeting  next  after  the  passage  of  this 
act  shall  be  made  upon  the  assent  of  the  governor  thereof, 
duly  certified  by  the  Secretary  of  the  Treasury. 

Sec.  3.  That  if  any  portion  of  the  moneys  received  by  the 
designated  officer  of  any  State  or  Territory  for  the  further 
and  more  complete  endowment,  support,  and  maintenance  of 
agricultural  experiment  stations  as  provided  in  this  act  shall 
by  any  action  or  contingency  be  diminished  or  lost  or  be  mis¬ 
applied,  it  shall  be  replaced  by  said  State  or  Territory  to 
which  it  belongs,  and  until  so  replaced  no  subsequent  appro¬ 
priation  shall  be  apportioned  or  paid  to  such  State  or  Terri¬ 
tory;  and  no  portion  of  said  moneys  exceeding  five  per  cen¬ 
tum  of  each  annual  appropriation  shall  be  applied,  directly  or 
indirectly,  under  any  pretense  whatever,  to  the  purchase,  erec¬ 
tion,  preservation,  or  repair  of  any 'building  or  buildings,  or 
to  the  purchase  or  rental  of  land.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  each 
of  said  stations  annually,  on  or  before  the  first  day  of  Feb¬ 
ruary,  to  make  to  the  governor  of  the  State  or  Territory  in 
which  it  is  located  a  full  and  detailed  report  of  its  operations, 
including  a  statement  of  receipts  and  expenditures,  a  copy  of 
which  report  shall  be  sent  to  each  of  said  stations,  to  the  Sec¬ 
retary  of  Agriculture,  and  to  the  Secretary  of  the  Treasury  of 
the  United  States. 

Sec.  4.  That  on  or  before  the  first  day  of  July  in  each  year 
after  the  passage  of  this  act  the  Secretary  of  Agriculture  shall 
ascertain  and  certify  to  the  Secretary  of  the  Treasury  as  to 
each  State  and  Territory  whether  it  is  complying  with  the  pro¬ 
visions  of  this  act  and  is  entitled  to  receive  its  share  of  the  an- 


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nual  appropriation  for  agricultural  experiment  stations  under 
this  act  and  the  amount  which  thereupon  each  is  entitled,  re¬ 
spectively,  to  receive.  If  the  Secretary  of  Agriculture  shall 
withhold  a  certificate  from  any  State  on  Territory  of  its  ap¬ 
propriation,  the  facts  and  reasons  therefor  shall  be  reported 
to  the  President,  and  the  amount  involved  shall  be  kept  sepa¬ 
rate  in  the  Treasury  until  the  close  of  the  next  Congress,  in 
order  that  the  State  or  Territory  may,  if  it  shall  so  desire,  ap¬ 
peal  to  Congress  from  the  determination  of  the  Secretary  of 
Agriculture.  If  the  next  Congress  shall  not  direct  such  sum 
to  be  paid,  it  shall  be  covered  into  the  Treasury ;  and  the  Sec¬ 
retary  of  Agriculture  is  hereby  charged  with  the  proper  ad¬ 
ministration  of  this  law. 

Sec.  5.  That  the  Secretary  of  Agriculture  shall  make  an 
annual  report  to  Congress  on  the  receipts  and  expenditures 
and  work  of  the  agricultural  experiment  stations  in  all  of  the 
States  and  Territories,  and  also  whether  the  appropriation  of 
any  State  of  Territory  has  been  withheld;  and  if  so,  the  rea¬ 
son  therefor. 

Sec.  6.  That  Congress  may  at  any  time  amend,  suspend,  or 
repeal  any  or  all  of  the  provisions  of  this  act. 

Approved,  March  16,  1906  (34  Stat.  L.,  63). 


Interpretations  of  Adams  Act. 

The  act  of  Congress  approved  March  sixteenth,  nineteen 
hundred  and  six,  entitled  “An  act  to  provide  for  an  increased 
annual  appropriation  for  agricultural  experiment  stations  and 
regulating  the  expenditure  thereof/’  shall  be  construed  to  ap¬ 
propriate  for  each  station  the  sum  of  five  thousand  dollars  for 
the  fiscal  year  ending  June  thirtieth,  nineteen  hundred  and 
six,  the  sum  of  seven  thousand  dollars  for  the  fiscal  year  end¬ 
ing  June  thirtieth,  nineteen  hundred  and  seven,  the  sum  of 
nine  thousand  dollars  for  the  fiscal  year  ending  June  thirtieth, 
nineteen  hundred  and  eight,  the  sum  of  eleven  thousand  dol¬ 
lars  for  the  fiscal  year  ending  June  thirtieth,  nineteen  hun¬ 
dred  and  nine,  the  sum  of  thirteen  thousand  dollars  for  the 
fiscal  year  ending  June  thirtieth,  nineteen  hundred  and  ten, 
and  the  sum  of  fifteen  thousand  dollars  for  the  fiscal  year 
ending  June  thirtieth,  nineteen  hundred  and  eleven.  The  sum 
of  five  thousand  dollars  appropriated  for  the  fiscal  year  nine¬ 
teen  hundred  and  six  shall  be  paid  on  or  before  June  thir¬ 
tieth,  nineteen  hundred  and  six,  and  the  amounts  appropriated 
for  the  subsequent  years  shall  be  paid  as  provided  in  the  said 
act  to  each  State  and  Territory  for  the  more  complete  endow¬ 
ment  and  maintenance  of  agricultural  experiment  stations  now 
established  or  which  may  hereafter  be  established  in  accord- 


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ance  with  the  Act  of  Congress  approved  March  second,  eight¬ 
een  hundred  and  eighty-seven. 

Approved,  June  30,  1906  (34  Stat.  L.,  669,  696). 


Sale  of  Card  Index  of  Experiment  Station  Literature. 

[Extract  from  act  making  appropriations  for  the  United  States  Depart¬ 
ment  of  Agriculture  for  the  fiscal  year  ending  June  30,  1909.] 

And  the  Secretary  of  Agriculture  hereafter  may  furnish 
to  such  institutions  or  individuals  as  may  care  to  buy  them 
copies  of  the  card  index  of  agricultural  literature  prepared 
by  the  Office  of  Experiment  Stations,  and  charge  for  the  same 
a  price  covering  the  additional  expense  involved  in  the  prepa¬ 
ration  of  these  copies,  the  money  received  from  such  sales  to 
be  deposited  in  the  Treasury  of  the  United  States  as  miscel¬ 
laneous  receipts.  *  *  * 

Approved,  May  23,  1908  (35  Stat.  L.,  266). 


Cooperation  of  the  United  States  Department  of  Agricul¬ 
ture  With  the  State  Experiment  Stations. 

The  act  of  making  appropriations  for  the  United  States  De¬ 
partment  of  Agriculture  for  the  fiscal  year  ending  June  30, 
1913,  provides  for  cooperation  between  the  Bureau  of  Ani¬ 
mal  Industry  and  the  State  agricultural  experiment  stations 
in  experiments  in  animal  feeding  and  breeding  and  between 
the  Bureau  of  Plant  Industry  and  the  stations  in  testing  and 
breeding  fiber  plants,  including  flax  straw  for  paper  making 
(at  the  North  Dakota  Agricultural  College),  and  in  testing 
rare  and  valuable  seeds,  bulbs,  trees,  shrubs,  vines,  cuttings, 
and  plants  from  foreign  countries. 


REGULATIONS  OF  THE  POST  OFFICE  DEPARTMENT 
CONCERNING  AGRICULTURAL  EXPERIMENT  STA¬ 
TION  PUBLICATIONS. 


Sections  515,  516,  and  517  of  the  Postal  Laws  and  Regulations 
(1902)  of  the  United  States  relating  to  the  free  transmission  of 
reports  and  bulletins  of  agricultural  colleges  and  experiment 
stations  read  as  follows: 

Sec.  515.  One  copy  of  each  of  the  annual  reports  required  by  law  to 
be  made  to  the  Secretary  of  the  Interior  and  the  Secretary  of  Agricul¬ 
ture,  by  such  colleges  as  are  or  may  hereafter  be  established  for  the 


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benefit  of  agriculture  and  the  mechanic  arts  in  the  several  States,  and 
Territories  under  the  provisions  of  the  act  of  July  2,  1862,  entitled  “An 
act  donating  public  lands  to  the  several  States  and  Territories  which 
may  provide  colleges  for  the  benefit  of  agriculture  and  the  mechanic 
arts,”  and  the  acts  amendatory  thereof  *  *  *  shall  be  transmitted 

by  mail  free,  by  each,  to  all  the  other  colleges  which  may  be  endowed 
under  the  provisions  of  this  act  (of  July  2,  1862),  and  also  one  copy  to 
the  Secretary  of  the  Interior  and  the  Secretary  of  Agriculture. 

2.  Postmasters  at  offices  where  colleges  are  established  under  the 
provisions  of  the  act  of  July  2,  1862,  will  receive  from  the  officers  there¬ 
of  the  reports  referred  to  addressed,  one  copy  each,  to  such  other  col¬ 
leges  and  to  the  Secretary  of  the  Interior  and  the  Secretary  of  Agri¬ 
culture,  and  affix  to  each  a  penalty  label  or  official  envelope  of  the  post 
office,  and  forward  the  same  free. 

Sec.  516.  Bulletins  or  reports  of  progress,  one  copy  to  each  news¬ 
paper  in  the  State  or  Territory  in  which  the  colleges  hereafter  referred 
to  are  located,  and  to  such  individuals  actually  engaged  in  farming  as 
may  request  the  same,  and  the  annual  reports  required  by  law  to  be 
published  by  the  agricultural  experiment  stations  established  under 
the  provisions  of  the  act  of  March  2,  1887,  entitled,  “An  act  to 
establish  agricultural  experiment  stations  in  connection  with  the  col¬ 
leges  established  in  the  various  States  and  Territories  under  the  provi¬ 
sions  of  an  act  approved  July  2,  1862,  and  the  acts  supplementary 
thereto,”  for  the  benefit  of  agriculture  and  the  mechanic  arts  (of  said 
stations )  shall  be  transmitted  in  the  mails  of  the  United  States  free  of 
charge  for  postage,  under  such  regulations  as  the  Postmaster  General 
may  from  time  to  time  prescribe. 

Sec.  517.  Agricultural  experiment  stations  which  claim  the  privilege 
of  transmitting  free  through  the  mails,  under  the  provisions  of  the  pre¬ 
ceding  section,  bulletins,  reports  of  progress,  or  annual  reports,  must 
make  application  to  the  Postmaster  General,  stating  the  date  of  the 
establishment  of  such  station,  its  proper  name  or  designation,  its  offi¬ 
cial  organization,  and  the  names  of  its  officers,  the  name  of  the  univer¬ 
sity,  college,  school,  or  institution  to  which  it  is  attached,  if  any,  the 
legislation  of  the  State  or  Territory  providing  for  its  establishment, 
and  any  other  granting  it  the  benefits  of  the  provision  made  by  Con¬ 
gress  as  referred  to  in  the  preceding  section,  accompanied  by  a  copy  of 
the  act  or  acts,  and  whether  any  other  such  station  in  the  same  State 
or  Territory  is  considered,  or  claims  to  be,  also  entitled  to  the  privi¬ 
lege;  and  also  the  place  where  such  station  is  located  and  the  name  of 
the  post  office  where  the  bulletins  and  reports  will  be  mailed.  The  ap¬ 
plication  must  be  signed  by  the  officer  in  charge  of  the  station. 

2.  If  such  application  is  allowed  by  the  Postmaster  General  the  post¬ 
master  at  the  proper  office  will  be  instructed  to  admit  such  bulletins 
and  reports  to  the  mails  free  of  postage,  and  the  officer  in  charge  of  the 
station  will  be  notified  thereof. 

3.  Only  such  bulletins  or  reports  as  shail  have  been  issued  after  an 
experiment  station  became  entitled  to  the  privileges  of  the  preceding 
section  can  be  transmitted  free;  and  such  bulletins  or  reports  may  be 
inclosed  in  envelopes  or  wrappers,  sealed  or  unsealed.  On  the  exterior 
of  every  envelope,  wrapper,  or  package  must  be  written  or  printed  the 
name  of  the  station  and  place  of  its  location,  the  designation  of  the 
bulletin  or  report  inclosed,  and  the  word  “Free”  over  the  signature  or 
facsimile  thereof  of  the  officer  in  charge  of  the  station,  to  be  affixed  by 
himself,  or  by  some  one  duly  authorized  by  him.  There  may  also  be 
written  or  printed  upon  the  envelope  or  wrapper  a  request  that  the 
postmaster  at  the  office  of  delivery  will  notify  the  mailing  station  of 
the  change  of  address  of  the  addressee,  or  other  reason  for  inability 
to  deliver  the  same,  and  upon  a  bulk  package  a  request  to  the  post¬ 
master  to  open  and  distribute  the  “franked”  matter  therein,  in  accord¬ 
ance  with  the  addresses  thereon- 


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4.  Bulletins  published  by  the  United  States  Department  of  Agricul¬ 
ture,  and  entitled  to  be  mailed  free  under  the  penalty  envelope  of  that 
department,  may  also  be  adopted  and  mailed  by  agricultural  experi¬ 
ment  stations,  with  such  of  their  own  publications  as  are  entitled  to 
free  transmission  in  the  mails,  under  the  same  regulations;  and  any 
bulletins  or  reports  mailable  free  by  any  agricultural  experiment  sta¬ 
tion  under  these  regulations  may  be  so  mailed  by  any  other  station  en¬ 
titled  to  such  privilege. 

5.  If  annual  reports  of  an  agricultural  experiment  station  are 
printed  by  State  authority,  and  consist  in  part  of  matter  relating  to 
the  land-grant  college  to  which  such  station  is  attached,  then  said  re¬ 
port  entire  may  be  mailed  free  by  the  director  of  the  station,  provided, 
in  his  judgment,  the  whole  consists  of  useful  information  of  an  agricul¬ 
tural  character.  But  the  reports  of  State  agricultural  departments  or 
boards  can  not  be  adopted  by  agricultural  experiment  stations  in  order 
to  secure  free  circulation  of  such  State  reports. 

6.  The  bulletins  and  reports  of  progress  issued  by  agricultural  ex¬ 
periment  stations  can  only  be  sent  free  to  the  newspapers  and  persons 
stated  in  the  preceding  section.  The  annual  reports  may  be  sent  free 
to  any  address. 

A  part  of  section  544,  relating  to  free  transmission  of  annual 
reports  to  certain  foreign  countries,  reads  as  follows: 

The  annual  reports  of  agricultural  experiment  stations  may  be  sent 
free  to  Canada,  Cuba,  and  Mexico. 

A  part  of  section  672,  relating  to  the  return  and  disposal  of 
•  unclaimed  official  matter,  as  amended  April  26,  1912,  reads  as 
follows : 

Unclaimed  official  mail  sent  under  penalty  envelope  or  label  or  the 
frank  of  a  Member  of  Congress,  and  unclaimed  reports  and  bulletins 
sent  out  from  State  agricultural  colleges  and  from  agricultural  experi¬ 
ment  stations  will  be  returned  to  the  office  of  mailing  if  it  is  known. 
If  the  office  of  origin  can  not  be  ascertained,  such  mail  will  be  returned 
to  the  post  office  at  Washington,  D.  C. 

An  order  of  the  Postmaster  General  provides — 

Any  article  entitled  to  transmission  free  of  postage  in  the  domestic 
mails  of  the  United  States,  either  in  a  “penalty”  envelope  or  under  a 
duly  authorized  “frank,”  shall  be  entitled  likewise  to  transmission  in 
the  mails  free  of  postage  between  places  in  any  possession  of  the  United 
States  from  one  to  another  of  such  possessions  from  the  United  States 
to  such  possessions,  and  from  such  possessions  to  the  United  States. 

Among  rulings  on  matters  of  detail  the  following  are  the  most 
important : 

In  sending  out  bulletins  from  an  agricultural  experiment  station  it 
is  permissible  to  inclose  postal  cards  to  enable  correspondents  of  the 
station  to  acknowledge  the  receipt  of  its  publications  and  to  request 
their  continuous  transmission. 

“Copies  of  the  reports  or  bulletins  of  the  agricultural  experiment 
stations,  which  are  purchased,  paid,  or  subscribed  for,  or  otherwise  dis¬ 
posed  of  for  gain,  when  sent  in  the  mails,  are  not  entitled  to  free  car¬ 
riage  under  the  ‘frank’  of  the  director  of  station.” 

Station  bulletins  and  reports,  consisting  of  typewritten  matter  dup¬ 
licated  on  a  mimeograph  or  other  duplicating  machine,  “retain  their 
character  as  free  matter  when  properly  franked  by  the  director  of  the 
station.” 

Cards  upon  which  are  printed  bulletins  issued  by  agricultural  experi¬ 
ment  stations  established  under  the  provisions  of  the  act  of  March  2, 
1887,  may  be  sent  openly  in  the  mails,  free  of  postage,  provided  the  ad¬ 
dress  side  of  such  cards  bears  the  indicia  prescribed  in  paragraph  3, 


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section  517,  Postal  Laws  and  Regulations,  for  envelopes  used  by  the  ex¬ 
periment  stations  referred  to  in  mailing  copies  of  their  bulletins  and 
reports. 

Reports  of  the  State  boards  of  agriculture  or  other  State  boards, 
commissioners,  or  officers,  even  though  they  contain  station  bulletins 
and  reports,  can  not  be  sent  free  through  the  mails  under  the  frank 
of  the  director  of  the  station.  The  catalogue  of  the  college  of  which 
the  station  is  a  department  can  not  be  sent  free  through  the  mails  un¬ 
der  the  frank  of  the  director  of  the  station,  whether  said  catalogue  is 
published  separately  or  is  bound  together  with  a  station  publication. 


RULINGS  OF  THE  TREASURY  DEPARTMENT  AFFECT¬ 
ING  AGRICULTURAL  EXPERIMENT  STATIONS. 


From  copies  of  letters  addressed  to  the  Secretary  of  the  Treas¬ 
ury  and  others  by  the  First  Comptroller  of  the  Treasury,  relat¬ 
ing  to  the  construction  of  the  acts  of  Congress  of  March  2,  1887 
(Hatch  Act),  and  March  16,  1906  (Adams  Act),  and  acts  sup¬ 
plementary  thereto,  the  following  digest  has  been  prepared. 
The  dates  of  the  decisions  by  the  comptroller  are  given: 


Section  3,  Hatch  Act — January  -30,  1888. 

The  annual  financial  statement  of  the  stations,  with  vouchers, 
should  not  be  sent  to  the  Treasury  Department,  but  a  copy  sim¬ 
ply  of  the  report  that  is  made  to  the  governor  is  to  be  sent  to  the 
Secretary  of  the  Treasury. 


Section  3,  Hatch  Act — January  31,  1888. 

(1)  The  Treasury  Department  will  not  require  officers  of  ex¬ 
periment  stations  to  do  or  perform  anything  not  specifically  re¬ 
quired  by  said  bill. 

(2)  The  Secretary  of  the  Treasury  is  not  required  to  take  a 
bond  of  the  officers  of  said  stations  for  the  money  paid  over  un¬ 
der  the  provisions  of  said  act. 

(3)  No  reports  will  be  required  from  the  stations  directly  to 
the  Secretary  of  the  Treasury ;  but  the  governor  of  the  State 
must  send  to  the  Secretary  of  the  Treasury  a  copy  of  the  report 
made  to  him  by  the  colleges  or  stations. 


Section  4,  Hatch  Act — December  16,  1895. 

The  Solicitor  of  the  Treasury  writes:  “I  am  of  the  opinion 
that  there  is  no  authority  for  an  agricultural  experiment  station 


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to  sell  its  bulletins  outside  of  the  State  or  Territory.  Congress 
appropriates  for  the  publication  and  free  distribution  of  the  bul¬ 
letins,  and  neither  expressly  nor  by  necessary  implication  au¬ 
thorizes  their  sale.” 


Section  6,  Hatch  Act — August  2,  1888. 

The  fiscal  year  commences  on  the  1st  day  of  July,  correspond¬ 
ing  with  the  fiscal  year  of  the  Government. 

An  agricultural  station  entitled  to  the  benefits  of  said  appro¬ 
priations  made  by  Congress  can  anticipate  the  payment  to  be 
made  July  1,  and  make  contracts  of  purchases  prior  to  that  time, 
if  it  shall  be  necessary  to  carry  on  the  work  of  the  station.  Of 
course,  no  portion  of  said  appropriations  paid  in  quarterly  in¬ 
stallments  can  be  drawn  from  the  Treasury  unless  needed  for  the 
purposes  indicated  in  the  act ;  and  so  much  of  what  is  so  drawn 
as  may  not  have  been  expended  within  the  year  must  be  ac¬ 
counted  for  as  part  of  the  appropriation  for  the  following  year. 


Section  8,  Hatch  Act — January  30,  1888. 

The  State  of  New  York  ought  to  designate  whether  to  the  col¬ 
lege  or  to  the  station  or  to  both  it  desires  the  appropriation  to  be 
applied.  The  eighth  section  of  the  act  seems  to  authorize  the 
State  to  apply  such  benefits  to  experimental  stations  it  may  have 
established  as  it  desires. 

Where  there  are  no  experimental  stations  connected  with  the 
colleges,  the  legislatures  of  such  States  must  connect  the  agricul¬ 
tural  experiment  station  with  the  colleges  already  established  un¬ 
der  the  act  of  July  2,  1862;  there  is  no  authority  in  the  act  au¬ 
thorizing  the  establishment  of  agricultural  experiment  stations 
independent  of  said  colleges. 

The  act  contemplates  that  where  stations  have  already  been 
established  disconnected  from  the  colleges  the  legislatures  of 
such  States  may  make  such  provisions  in  regard  thereto  as  they 
may  deem  proper ;  but  it  does  not  authorize  the  establishment  of 
stations  except  in  connection  with  the  colleges  that  were  at  that 
time  or  might  hereafter  be  established  under  the  act  of  July  2, 
1862. 


Section  8,  Hatch  Act — February  14,  1888. 

Where  there  is  an  agricultural  college  or  station  which  may 
have  been  established  by  State  authority  and  is  maintained  by 
the  State,  the  eighth  section  of  the  above  act  would  authorize  the 
State  to  designate  the  station  to  which  it  desired  the  appropria- 


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tion  to  be  applied,  whether  to  one  or  more,  or  all,  and  the  Secre¬ 
tary  of  the  Treasury  should  make  the  payment  under  the  appro¬ 
priation  to  whichever  one  the  State  might  desire. 


Sections  1  and  8,  Hatch  Act — February  15,  1888. 

(1)  When  an  agricultural  college  or  station  has  -been  estab¬ 
lished  under  the  act  of  July  2,  1862,  each  college  is  entitled  to 
the  benefits  of  the  provisions  of  said  act  (i.  e.,  of  Mar.  2,  1887). 

(2)  In  a  State  where  an  agricultural  college  has  been  estab¬ 
lished  under  the  act  of  July  2,  1862,  and  agricultural  stations 
have  also  been  established,  either  under  the  act  of  July  2,  1862, 
or  by  State  authority,  before  March  2,  1887,  the  legislature  of 
such  State  shall  determine  which  one  of  said  institutions,  or  how 
many  of  them,  shall  receive  the  benefits  of  the  act  of  March  2, 
*1887. 

(3)  If  the  legislature  of  any  State  in  which  an  agricultural 
college  has  been  established  under  the  act  of  July  2,  1862,  desires 
to  establish  an  agricultural  station  which  shall  be  entitled  to  the 
benefits  of  said  act,  it  must  establish  such  station  in  connection 
with  said  college. 


Sections  1  and  8,  Hatch  Act — December  7,  1888. 

It  is  within  the  power  of  the  legislature  of  any  State  that  has 
accepted  the  provisions  of  said  act  of  March  2,  1887,  to  dispose 
of  the  amount  appropriated  by  Congress  for  said  station  to  each 
one  or  all  of  the  agricultural  colleges  or  stations  which  may  have 
been  established  in  said  State  by  virtue  of  either  the  provisions 
of  the  act  of  July  2,  1862,  or  the  provisions  of  said  eighth  section 
of  the  act  of  March  2,  1887. 

The  whole  responsibility  rests  upon  the  State  legislature  as  to 
how  the  fund  appropriated  by  Congress  shall  be  distributed 
among  these  various  institutions  of  the  State,  provided  there  is 
one  or  more  agricultural  colleges  with  which  an  agricultural  sta¬ 
tion  is  connected  or  one  or  more  agricultural  stations. 


Section  3,  Adams  Act — August  11,  1911  and  December 
27,  1911. 

Section  3  of  the  so-called  Adams  Act  of  March  16,  1906  (34 
Stat.,  63),  which  provides  for  an  increased  annual  appropriation 
for  agricultural  experiment  stations,  requires  that  such  part  of 
the  money  appropriated  under  the  provisions  of  said  act  as  may 
be  diminished  or  lost  or  misapplied  after  being  received  by  the 


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officer  of  the  State  or  Territory  designated  to  receive  same  must 
“be  replaced  by  said  State  or  Territory  to  which  it  belongs,  and 
until  so  replaced  no  subsequent  appropriation  shall  be  appor¬ 
tioned  or  paid  to  such  State  or  Territory” ;  and  this  requirement 
is  an  absolute  prohibition  upon  the  apportionment  until  such  re¬ 
placement  is  actually  made,  a  mere  withholding  from  the  subse¬ 
quent  appropriation  of  an  amount  equal  to  that  diminished,  lost, 
or  misapplied  not  being  a  compliance  with  said  statute.  (18 
Comp.  Dec.,  120.) 

Such  funds  may  be  replaced  by  expending  the  amount  in¬ 
volved  for  the  purposes  for  which  the  funds  were  originally  ap¬ 
propriated,  to  the  satisfaction  of  the  Secretary  of  Agriculture. 
There  is  “no  limitation  on  time  within  which  the  replacement 
shall  be  made,”  but  “no  apportionment  whatever  can  be  made 
until  the  misapplied  moneys  are  replaced.” 

The  provision  in  the  Hatch  Act  of  March  2,  1887  (24  Stat., 
440),  requiring  the  deduction  of  unexpended  appropriations  ap¬ 
plies  also  to  appropriations  under  the  Adams  Act  of  March  16, 
1906  (34  Stat.,  63).  (18  Comp.  Dec.,  485.) 

Such  unexpended  balances  must  be  accounted  for  as  a  part  of 
the  appropriation  for  the  next  succeeding  year;  in  short,  each 
station  must  account  every  year  for  the  specific  sum  (fifteen 
thousand  dollars)  provided  by  Congress,  although  the  amount 
actually  paid  to  the  station  in  any  one  year  may  be  less  than  fif¬ 
teen  thousand  dollars  on  account  of  the  deduction  of  an  unex¬ 
pended  balance  for  the  preceding  fiscal  year. 


RULINGS  OF  THE  DEPARTMENT  OF  AGRICULTURE 
AFFECTING  AGRICULTURAL  EXPERIMENT  STA¬ 
TIONS. 


In  connection  with  examinations  of  the  work  and  expenditures 
of  the  agricultural  experiment  stations  established  in  accordance 
with  the  act  of  Congress  of  March  2,  1887,  and  further  endowed 
under  act  of  Congress  of  March  16,  1906,  under  authority  given 
to  the  Secretary  of  Agriculture  by  Congress,  questions  have 
arisen  which  have  seemed  to  make  it  advisable  to  formulate  the 
views  of  this  department  on  certain  matters  affecting  the  man¬ 
agement  of  the  stations  under  those  acts.  The  rulings  which  have 
been  made  from  time  to  time  on  points  which  seemed  to  require 
special  attention  are  as  follows : 

Expenditures  for  Permanent  Substations. 

This  department  holds  that  the  expenditure  of  funds  appro¬ 
priated  in  accordance  with  the  provisions  of  the  Act  of  Con- 


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gress  of  March  2,  1887,  for  the  maintenance  of  permanent  sub¬ 
stations  is  contrary  to  the  spirit  and  intent  of  said  act.  The 
act  provides  for  an  experiment  station  in  each  State  and  Terri¬ 
tory,  which,  except  in  cases  specified  in  the  act,  is  to  be  a  de¬ 
partment  of  the  college  established  under  the  act  of  Congress 
of  July  2,  1862.  The  objects  of  the  stations,  as  defined  in  the 
first-mentioned  act,  are  evidently  of  such  a  character  as  to 
necessitate  the  services  of  scientific  and  expert  workers.  Most 
of  the  lines  of  investigation  named  in  the  act  are  general, 
rather  than  local,  and  involve  scientific  equipment  and  work. 
It  is  obviously  the  intent  that  the  stations  established  under 
this  act  shall  carry  on  important  investigations  which  shall  be 
of  general  benefit  to  the  agriculture  of  the  several  States  and 
Territories.  The  sum  of  $15,000,  which  is  annually  appropri¬ 
ated  by  Congress  under  this  act  for  each  station,  is  only  suffi¬ 
cient  to  carry  out  a  limited  number  of  investigations  of  the 
kind  contemplated  by  the  act. 

As  the  work  of  the  stations  in  the  different  States  has  de¬ 
veloped  it  has  been  found  necessary  to  limit,  rather  than  ex¬ 
pand,  the  lines  of  work  of  the  individual  stations.  Thorough 
work  in  a  few  lines  has  been  found  more  effective  and  produc¬ 
tive  of  more  useful  results  than  small  investigations  in  num¬ 
erous  lines.  When  we  consider  the  nature  of  the  investiga¬ 
tions,  the  amount  of  money  provided  for  the  work  of  each  sta¬ 
tion,  and  the  fact  that  the  act  expressly  provides  for  only  a 
single  station  in  connection  with  each  college,  it  becomes  very 
clear  that  expenditures  such  as  are  necessary  to  effectually 
maintain  permanent  substations  ought  not  to  be  made  from  the 
funds  granted  by  Congress  to  the  States  and  Territories  for 
experiment  stations.  The  maintenance  of  permanent  substa¬ 
tions,  as  a  rule,  involves  the  erection  of  buildings  and  the 
making  of  other  permanent  improvements.  The  sums  of  money 
which  can  be  expended  for  permanent  improvements  under 
the  act  of  Congress  aforesaid  are  so  small  that  it  is  clear  they 
were  not  intended  to  meet  the  needs  of  more  than  one  station 
in  each  State  and  Territory. 

When  the  legislature  of  a  State  or  Territory  has  given  its. 
assent  to  the  provisions  of  the  act  of  Congress  of  March  2, 
1887,  and  has  designated  the  institution  which  shall  receive 
the  benefits  of  said  act,  it  would  seem  to  have  exhausted  its 
powers  in  the  matter.  The  responsibility  for  the  maintenance 
of  an  experiment  station  under  said  act  devolves  upon  the  gov¬ 
erning  board  of  the  institution  thus  designated.  If  the  legis¬ 
lature  of  the  State  or  Territory  sees  fit  to  provide  funds  for 
the  equipment  and  maintenance  of  other  experiment  stations 
and  to  put  them  'under  the  control  of  the  same  governing 
board,  well  and  good,  but  this  does  not  in  any  way  diminish 
the  responsibility  of  the  board  to  administer  the  funds  granted 
by  Congress  in  accordance  with  the  provisions  of  said  act. 


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The  wisdom  of  Congress  in  limiting  the  number  of  stations 
to  be  established  in  each  State  and  Territory  under  the  afore¬ 
said  act  has  been  clearly  shown  by  the  experience  of  the  few 
States  and  Territories  which  have  attempted  the  mainten¬ 
ance  of  substations  with  the  funds  granted  under  said  act. 
The  expense  of  maintaining  substations  has,  as  a  rule,  mater¬ 
ially  weakened  the  central  station,  and  the  investigations  car¬ 
ried  on  at  the  substations  have  been  superficial  and  temporary. 
It  is  granted  that  in  many  States  and  Territories  more  than 
one  agricultural  experiment  station  might  do  useful  work,  and 
in  some  States  more  than  one  station  has  already  been  success¬ 
fully  maintained;  but  in  all  these  cases  the  State  has  given 
funds  from  its  own  treasury  to  supplement  those  given  by 
Congress.  It  is  also  granted  that  experiment  stations  estab¬ 
lished  under  said  act  of  Congress  and  having  no  other  funds 
than  those  provided  by  that  act  will  often  need  to  carry  on 
investigations  in  different  localities  in  their  respective  States 
and  Territories,  but  it  is  held  that  this  should  be  done  in  such 
a  way  as  Will  secure  the  thorough  supervision  of  such  investi¬ 
gations  by  the  expert  officers  of  the  station  and  that  arrange¬ 
ments  for  such  experimental  inquiries  should  not  be  of  so  per¬ 
manent  a  character  as  to  prevent  the  station  from  shifting  its 
work  from  place  to  place  as  circumstances  may  require  nor 
involve  the  expenditure  of  funds  in  such  amounts  and  in  such 
ways  as  will  weaken  the  work  of  the  station  as  a  whole. 

As  far  as  practicable  the  cooperation  of  individuals  and  com¬ 
munities  benefited  by  these  special  investigations  should  be 
sought  and,  if  necessary,  the  aid  of  the  States  invoked  to  carry 
on  enterprises  too  great  to  be  successfully  conducted  within 
the  limits  of  the  appropriation  granted  by  Congress  under  the 
act  aforesaid. 


PURCHASE  OR  RENTAL  OF  LANDS. 

This  department  holds  that  the  purchase  or  rental  of  lands 
by  the  experiment  stations  from  the  funds  appropriated  in 
accordance  with  the  provisions  of  the  act  of  Congress  of  March 
2,  1887,  is  contrary  to  the  spirit  and  intent  of  said  act.  The 
act  provides  for  “paying  the  necessary  expenses  of  conduct¬ 
ing  investigations  and  experiments  and  printing  and  distribut¬ 
ing  the  results  *  *  *  Provided,  however,  That  out  of  the 

first  annual  appropriation  so  received  by  any  station  an 
amount  not  exceeding  one-fifth  may  be  expended  in  the  erec¬ 
tion,  enlargement,  or  repair  of  a  building  or  buildings  neces¬ 
sary  for  carrying  on  the  work  of  such  stations;  and  thereafter 
an  amount  not  exceeding  five  per  centum  of  such  annual  ap¬ 
propriation  may  be  so  expended.”  The  only  reference  to  land 
for  the  station  in  the  act  is  in  section  8,  where  State  legisla- 


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tures  are  authorized  to  apply  appropriations  made  under  said 
act  to  separate  agricultural  colleges  or  schools  established  by 
the  State  “  which  shall  have  connected  therewith  an  experi¬ 
mental  farm  or  station.”  The  strict  limitation  of  the  amount 
provided  for  buildings  and  the  absence  of  any  provision  for 
the  purchase  or  rental  of  lands,  when  taken  in  connection 
with  the  statement  in  the  eighth  section,  which  treats  the  farm 
as  in  a  sense  a  necessary  adjunct  of  the  educational  institu¬ 
tion  to  which  the  whole  or  a  part  of  the  funds  appropriated 
in  accordance  with  said  act  might  in  certain  cases  be  devoted, 
point  to  the  conclusion  that  it  was  expected  that  the  institu¬ 
tion  of  which  the  station  is  a  department  would  supply  the 
land  needed  for  experimental  purposes  and  that  charges  for 
the  purchase  or  rental  of  lands  would  not  be  made  against  the 
funds  provided  by  Congress  for  the  experiment  station.  This 
conclusion  is  reenforced  by  consideration  of  a  wise  and  econo¬ 
mic  policy  in  the  management  of  agricultural  experiment  sta¬ 
tions,  especially  as  relating  to  £ases  in  which  it  might  be  de¬ 
sirable  for  the  station  to  have  land  for  experimental  purposes 
in  different  localities.  The  investigations  carried  on  by  the 
stations  in  such  cases  being  for  the  direct  benefit  of  agriculture 
in  the  localities  where  the  work  is  done,  it  seems  only  reason¬ 
able  that  persons  or  communities  whose  interests  will  be  ad¬ 
vanced  by  the  station  work  should  contribute  the  use  of  the 
small  tracts  of  land  which  will  be  required  for  experimental 
purposes.  Experience  shows  that  in  most  cases  the  stations  have 
had  no  difficulty  in  securing  such  land  as  they  needed  without 
expense,  and  it  is  believed  that  this  may  be  done  in  every  case 
without  injuriously  affecting  the  interests  of  the  stations. 

expenditures  for  farm  operations. 

This  department  holds  that  expenses  incurred  in  conducting 
the  operations  of  farms,  whether  the  farms  are  connected  with 
institutions  established  under  the  act  of  Congress  of  July  2,  1862, 
or  not,  are  not  a  proper  charge  against  the  funds  appropriated 
by  Congress  for  agricultural  experiment  stations  in  accordance 
with  the  act  of  Congress  of  March  2,  1887,  unless  such  operations 
definitely  constitute  a  part  of  agricultural  investigations  or  ex¬ 
periments  planned  and  conducted  in  accordance  with  the  terms 
of  the  act  aforesaid,  under  rules  and  regulations  prescribed  by 
the  governing  board  of  the  station.  The  performance  of  ordi¬ 
nary  farm  operations  by  an  experiment  station  does  not  consti¬ 
tute  experimental  work.  Operations  of  this  character  by  an  ex¬ 
periment  station  should  be  confined  to  such  as  are  a  necessary 
part  of  experimental  inquiries.  Carrying  on  a  farm  for  profit  or 
as  a  model  farm,  or  to  secure  funds  which  may  be  afterwards 
devoted  to  the  erection  of  buildings  for  experiment  station  pur- 


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poses,  to  the  further  development  of  experimental  investigation, 
or  to  any  other  purpose,  however  laudable  and  desirable,  is  not 
contemplated  by  the  law  as  a  part  of  the  functions  of  an  agricul¬ 
tural  experiment  station  established  under  the  act  of  Congress 
of  March  2,  1887.  Section  5  of  that  act  plainly  limits  the  ex¬ 
penditures  of  funds  appropriated  in  accordance  with  said  act  to 
‘  ‘  the  necessary  expenses  of  conducting  investigations  and  experi¬ 
ments  and  printing  and  distributing  the  results.  ’  ’ 

FUNDS  FROM  SALES. 

This  department  holds  that  moneys  received  from  the  sales  of 
farm  products  or  other  property  in  the  possession  of  an  agricul¬ 
tural  experiment  station  as  the  result  of  expenditures  of  funds 
received  by  the  station  in  accordance  with  the  act  of  Congress  of 
March  2,  1887,  rightfully  belong  to  the  experiment  station  as  a 
department  of  the  college  or  other  institution  with  which  it  is  con¬ 
nected,  and  may  be  expended  in  accordance  with  the  laws  or  regu¬ 
lations  governing  the  financial  transactions  of  the  governing 
board  of  the  station,  provided,  however,  that  all  expenses  attend¬ 
ing  such  sales,  including  those  attending  the  delivery  of  the  prop¬ 
erty  into  the  possession  of  the  purchaser,  should  be  deducted  from 
the  gross  receipts  from  the  sales  and  should  not  be  made  a  charge 
against  the  funds  appropriated  by  Congress. 

LIMIT  OF  EXPENDITURES  DURING  ONE  FISCAL  YEAR. 

This  department  holds  that  expenses  incurred  by  an  agricul¬ 
tural  experiment  station  in  any  one  fiscal  year  to  be  paid  from 
the  funds  provided  under  the  act  of  Congress  of  March  2,  1887, 
should  not  exceed  the  amount  appropriated  to  the  station  by  Con¬ 
gress  for  that  year,  and  especially  that  all  personal  services 
should  be  paid  for  out  of  the  appropriation  of  the  year  in  which 
they  were  performed,  and  that  claims  for  compensation  for  such 
services  can  not  properly  be  paid  out  of  the  appropriations  for 
succeeding  years.  The  several  appropriations  for  experiment 
stations  under  the  aforesaid  act  are  for  one  year  only,  and  officers 
of  experiment  stations  have  no  authority  to  contract  for  expendi¬ 
tures  beyond  the  year  for  which  Congress  has  made  appropria¬ 
tions. 

This  is  plainly  implied  in  the  act  aforesaid,  inasmuch  as  sec¬ 
tion  6  provides  that  unexpended  balances  shall  revert  to  the 
Treasury  of  the  United  States,  “in  order  that  the  amount  of 
money  appropriated  to  any  station  shall  not  exceed  the  amount 
actually  and  necessarily  required  for  its  maintenance  and  sup¬ 
port.”  The  annual  financial  report  rendered  in  the  form  pre¬ 
scribed  by  this  department  should  in  every  case  include  only  the 
receipts  and  expenditures  of  the  fiscal  year  for  which  the  report 
is  made. 


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EXPENDITURES  FOR  A  WATER  SYSTEM. 

This  department  holds  that  expenditures  by  agricultural  ex¬ 
periment  stations  from  the  funds  appropriated  in  accordance 
with  the  act  of  Congress  of  March  2,  1887,  for  the  construction 
of  wells,  cisterns,  ponds,  or  other  reservoirs  for  the  storage  of 
water,  and  for  piping,  and  other  materials  for  a  system  of  stor¬ 
ing  and  distributing  water,  are  properly  charged,  under  abstract 
18  in  the  schedule  for  financial  reports  prescribed  by  this  depart¬ 
ment,  as  being  for  improvements  on  lands  which  have  hitherto 
been  held  to  come  under  the  head  of  “  buildings  and  repairs/  ’ 
The  fact  that  a  water  system  may  be  a  necessary  adjunct  of  cer¬ 
tain  experimental  inquiries  does  not  affect  the  case,  inasmuch  as 
the  limitations  on  expenditures  for  improvements  contained  in 
section  5  of  the  act  of  Congress  of  March  2,  1887,  expressly  stip¬ 
ulate  that  these  improvements  shall  be  such  as  are  necessary  for 
carrying  on  the  work  of  the  station. 

EXPENDITURES  FOR  MEMBERSHIP  IN  ORGANIZATIONS. 

This  department  holds  that  membership  fees  in  associations 
and  other  organizations  are  not  a  proper  charge  against  the 
funds  appropriated  by  Congress  in  accordance  with  the  act  of 
March  2,  1887,  except  in  the  case  of  the  Association  of  American 
Agricultural  Colleges  and  Experiment  Stations,  which  is  held 
to  be  an  essential  part  of  the  system  of  experiment  stations  es¬ 
tablished  under  said  act. 

THE  BORROWING  OF  MONEY. 

This  department  holds  that  experiment  station  officers  have  no 
authority  to  borrow  money  to  be  repaid  out  of  appropriations 
made  under  the  act  of  Congress  of  March  2,  1887,  and  that 
charges  for  interest  can  not  properly  be  made  against  funds  ap¬ 
propriated  under  that  act. 

THE  USE  OF  FUNDS  FOR  COLLEGE  PURPOSES. 

This  department  holds  that  no  portion  of  the  funds  appropri¬ 
ated  by  Congress  in  accordance  with  the  act  of  March  2,  1887, 
can  legally  be  used,  either  directly  or  indirectly,  for  paying  the 
salaries  or  wages  of  professors,  teachers,  or  other  persons  whose 
duties  are  confined  to  teaching,  administration,  or  other  work  in 
connection  with  the  courses  of  instruction  given  in  the  colleges 
with  which  the  stations  are  connected  or  in  any  other  educational 
institution ;  or  should  any  other  expenses  connected  with  the 
work  or  facilities  for  instruction  in  school  or  college  courses  be 
paid  from  said  fund.  In  case  the  same  persons  are  employed  in 


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both  the  experiment  station  and  the  other  departments  of 
the  college  with  which  the  station  is  connected  a  fair  and 
equitable  division  of  salaries  or  wages  should  be  made,  and 
in  case  of  any  other  expenditures  for  the  joint  benefit  of  the  ex¬ 
periment  station  and  the  other  departments  of  the  college  the 
aforesaid  funds  should  be  charged  with  only  a  fair  share  of  such 
expenditures. 


Expenditures  for  Extension  Work. 

Expenses  for  extension  work  should  not  be  charged  against  the 
Hatch  fund,  and  *  *  *  only  such  printing  should  be  done 

with  that  fund  as  will  record  the  experimental  work  of  the  sta¬ 
tions  established  under  the  Hatch  Act.  *  *  * 

expenditures  for  accounting. 

[Extract  from  circular  letter  of  the  Secretary  of^ Agriculture  of  Mar.  20,  1906.] 

Under  the  terms  of  the  act  it  will  be  necessary  that  a  separate 
account  of  the  Adams  fund  shall  be  kept  at  each  station,  which 
should  be  open  at  all  times  to  the  inspection  of  the  Director  of 
the  Office  of  Experiment  Stations  or  his  accredited  representa¬ 
tive.  *  *  * 

The  Adams  fund  is  ‘  Ho  be  applied  only  to  paying  the  necessary 
expenses  of  conducting  original  researches  or  experiments  bear¬ 
ing  directly  on  the  agricultural  industry  of  the  United  States.’ ’ 
It  is  for  the  ‘  ‘  more  complete  endowment  and  maintenance  ’  ’  of  the 
experiment  stations,  presupposing  the  provision  of  a  working 
plant  and  administrative  officers.  Accordingly,  expenses  for  ad¬ 
ministration,  care  of  buildings  and  grounds,  insurance,  office  fur¬ 
niture  and  fittings,  general  maintenance  of  the  station  farm  and 
animals,  verification  and  demonstration  experiments,  compila¬ 
tions,  farmers  ’  institute  work,  traveling,  except  as  is  immediately 
connected  with  original  researches  in  progress  under  this  act,  and 
other  general  expenses  for  the  maintenance  of  the  experiment  sta¬ 
tions,  are  not  to  be  charged  to  this  fund.  The  act  makes  no  pro¬ 
vision  for  printing  or  for  the  distribution  of  publications,  which 
should  be  charged  to  other  funds.  *  *  * 

Classification  of  Station  Accounts. 

In  accordance  with  the  requirement  that  the  Secretary  of  Agri¬ 
culture  shall  prescribe  the  form  of  the  annual  financial  statement 
required  under  the  Hatch  and  Adams  Acts,  forms  are  issued  by 
the  Office  of  Experiment  Stations  which  provide  for  the  classifi¬ 
cation  of  station  accounts  under  18  ledger  headings,  as  follows: 

(1)  .  Salaries — administrative,  technical,  and  clerical. 

(2)  Labor,  regular  and  temporary,  in  connection  with  experiments. 

(3)  Publications,  printing,  illustration,  envelopes  for  mailing,  etc. 


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(4)  Postage  and  stationery,  including  means  of  communication,  such 

as  telephone,  telegraph,  and  cable  service;  and  stationery  for 
office  and  record  purposes,  forms,  index,  cards,  etc. 

(5)  Freight  and  express,  including  drayage  or  other  charges  for 

handling  freight. 

(6)  Heat,  light,  water,  and  power. 

(7)  Chemicals  and  laboratory  supplies  for  all  departments  of  the  sta¬ 

tion,  not  including  apparatus  of  permanent  character. 

(8)  Seeds,  plants,  and  sundry  supplies  not  otherwise  provided  for,  for 

variqus  departments. 

(9)  Fertilizers,  including  water  for  irrigation. 

(10)  Feeding  stuffs  for  work  animals  and  those  under  experiment. 

(11)  Library — books,  periodicals,  and  binding,  but  not  including 

equipment  or  general  supplies. 

(12)  Tools,  machinery,  and  appliances,  such  as  agricultural  imple¬ 
ments  and  machines,  motors,  mills,  pumps,  vehicles,  harness, 
shelters,  including  repairs  to  same. 

(13)  Furniture  and  fixtures  for  offices  and  laboratories— desks,  cases, 

typewriters,  and  office  appliances. 

(14)  Scientific  apparatus  and  specimens  including  mounted  insects, 
fungi,  etc. 

(15)  Live  stock,  including  purchase  of  animals  of  all  kinds  for  work 

or  experimental  purposes,  but  not  their  feeding  and  care. 

(16)  Traveling  expenses  in  supervision  of  station  work  or  in  connec¬ 
tion  with  it. 

(17)  Contingent  expenses,  to  be  itemized  in  detail. 

(18)  Buildings  and  land,  including  all  expenses  for  labor  and  ma¬ 

terial  for  the  erection,  alteration,  and  repair  of  buildings,  per¬ 
manent  structures  built  in  place,  purchase  of  permanent  fix¬ 
tures  forming  part  of  a  building,  purchase  or  rental  of  land 
(under  Adams  fund  only),  and  improvements  on  land,  such  as 
roads,  fences,  drainage  or  water  systems,  etc. 

Experiment  Station  Accounting. 

[See  circular  letter  of  the  Director  of  the  Office  of  Experiment  Stations  of 
March  1,  1911.] 

The  principle  which  should  guide  is  that  all  expenditures  from 
the  Hatch  fund  must  be  for  experimental  work  and  publications, 
and  all  expenditures  from  the  Adams  fund  for  the  projects 
agreed  upon  in  advance  with  the  Office  of  Experiment  Stations. 

In  adjusting  the  salaries  of  station  employes  only  such  portion 
of  their  time  as  is  occupied  in  connection  with  experimental  work 
and  the  publication  of  the  results  thereof,  including  correspond¬ 
ence  directly  relating  to  the  experimental  work,  should  be  charged 
to  the  Federal  funds  for  the  station.  All  business  and  correspon¬ 
dence  connected  with  the  college,  inspection  service,  and  exten¬ 
sion  department  of  bureau  of  information  should  be  paid  for  from 
other  funds. 

The  same  principle  should  be  applied  to  all  other  expenditures 
from  these  funds  for  the  maintenance  of  the  station. 

The  Adams  fund  expenditures  for  salaries,  labor,  travel,  ap¬ 
paratus,  books,  and  maintenance  should  be  strictly  confined  to 
those  necessitated  by  the  projects  on  file  which  have  been  ap¬ 
proved  by  this  office.  Each  voucher  should  be  indorsed  with  the 


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title  of  the  project  for  which  the  expenditure  was  incurred,  and 
be  0.  K’d  by  the  officer  in  immediate  charge  of  the  project  as  well 
as  by  the  director. 

Separate  accounts  should  be  kept  for  the  Hatch,  Adams,  and 
sales  funds,  and  as  far  as  practicable  separate  vouchers  should  be 
on  file  for  each  of  these  funds. 

The  sales  fund  should  be  used  only  for  experiment  station  work 
and  publications  and  not  for  inspection  or  extension  work  or  com¬ 
piled  publications. 

Bills  for  printing,  illustrations,  preparation  of  Ms.,  or  mailing 
of  publications  should  not  be  charged  to  the  Hatch  fund  unless 
the  publications  clearly  record  the  experimental  work  of  the  sta¬ 
tion.  Popular  bulletins  charged  to  the  Hatch  fund  should  ex¬ 
pressly  show  that  they  embody  the  results  of  the  station ’s  experi¬ 
mental  work.  General  bulletins  of  information,  circulars  con¬ 
taining  directions  for  the  use  of  fertilizers,  spraying,  etc.,  which 
are  compiled  from  well-known  sources  of  information  or  embody 
the  general  or  local  experience  of  practical  men,  and  other  com¬ 
piled  publications,  should  not  be  charged  to  the  Hatch  fund. 

The  expenses  of  tests  and  local  demonstrations  of  established 
results  of  experimental  work  or  improved  practice  are  not  proper 
charges  against  the  Federal  funds  for  the  stations. 

In  keeping  the  station  books  and  vouchers  and  in  making  up 
the  financial  reports  strict  attention  should  be  paid  to  the  rulings 
of  the  department,  the  published  scheme  of  classification  of  ac¬ 
counts,  and  the  instructions  printed  on  the  first  page  of  the  finan¬ 
cial  schedule  and  in  connection  with  the  several  abstracts  thereof. 

When  changes  are  made  of  accountants  or  clerks  the  require¬ 
ments  of  the  department  regarding  the  details  of  expenditure  and 
accounting  should  be  brought  to  the  attention  of  the  new  incum¬ 
bents,  and  care  should  be  taken  that  approved  methods  of  ac¬ 
counting  shall  not  be  changed  without  consideration  of  the  de¬ 
partment  ’s  requirements. 


TERRITORIAL  LEGISLATION 


ESTABLISHMENT  OF  UNIVERSITY. 


(Chapter  99 — Laws  of  1838.) 

AN  ACT  to  establish  the  University  of  the  Territory  of  Wiscon¬ 
sin. 

Section  1.  Be  it  enacted  by  the  Council  and  House  of  Rep¬ 
resentatives  of  the  Territory  of  Wisconsin,  That  there  shall  be 
established  at  or  near  Madison,  the  seat  of  government,  a  Uni¬ 
versity  for  the  purpose  of  educating  youth,  the  name  whereof 
shall  be  “the  University  of  the  Territory  of  Wisconsin.’ ’  The 
said  University  shall  be  under  the  government  of  a  board  of 
visitors  not  exceeding  twenty-one  in  number,  of  whom  the  Gov¬ 
ernor  and  the  Secretary  of  the  Territory,  the  Judge  of  the  Su¬ 
preme  Court  and  the  President  of  the  said  University  shall  be 
part,  and  Bushnell  B.  Cary,  Marshall  M.  Strong,  Byron  Kil- 
bourn,  William  A.  Gardner,  Henry  Stringham,  Charles  R. 
Brush,  Charles  C.  P.  Arndt,  John  Catlin,  George  H.  Slaughter, 
David  Brigham,  John  F.  Schermerhorn,  William  W.  Coriell, 
George  Beatty,  Henry  L.  Dodge  and  Augustus  A.  Bird,  the  re¬ 
mainder.  They  shall  hold  their  office  during  the  pleasure  of  the 
legislature,  by  whom  all  vacancies  shall  be  filled. 

Section  2.  The  said  board  of  visitors  and  their  successors 
shall  forever  hereafter  be,  and  they  are  herebj^  established,  and 
declared  to  be  a  body  politic  and  corporate,  wTith  perpetual  suc¬ 
cession  in  deed  and  in  law,  to  all  intents  and  purposes  whatso¬ 
ever,  by  the  name  of  “the  Board  of  Visitors  of  the  University 
of  the  Territory  of  Wisconsin,”  by  which  name  they  and  their 
successors  shall  be  capable  at  law  and  in  equity  of  suing  and 
being  sued,  answering  and  being  answered,  pleading  and  being 
impleaded,  and  holding  property,  real,  personal  and  mixed,  of 
buying  and  selling  and  otherwise  lawfully  disposing  of  prop¬ 
erty  ;  and  shall  have  power  to  make  and  use  a  common  seal,  and 
to  alter  the  same  at  their  pleasure ;  eleven  of  the  said  board  of 
visitors  shall  be  a  quorum  for  the  purpose  of  disposing  of  prop¬ 
erty  and  fixing  compensations,  and  any  seven  of  said  board  shall 
be  a  quorum  for  all  other  purposes* 


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Section  3.  It  shall  and  may  be  lawful  for  the  said  board  from 
time  to  time  to  apply  such  part  of  their  estate  and  funds  in  such 
manner  as  they  may  think  most  conducive  to  the  promotion  of 
literature,  and  the  advancement  of  useful  knowledge  within  this 
Territory :  provided ,  always  that  when  grants  shall  be  made  to 
them  for  certain  uses  and  purposes  therein  expressed  and  de¬ 
clared,  the  same  shall  not  be  applied  either  in  whole  or  part  to 
any  other  uses  without  the  consent  of  the  grantor. 

Section  4.  The  said  board  shall  appoint  by  ballot  a  Treas¬ 
urer  and  Secretary,  to  continue  in  office  during  the  pleasure  of 
the  board.  The  Treasurer  shall  give  bond  to  the  board  in  such 
sum  and  with  such  sureties  for  the  faithful  performance  of  the 
duties  of  his  office  as  the  said  board  may  direct,  and  shall  keep 
fair  and  true  accounts  of  all  moneys  by  him  received  and  paid 
out.  The  Secretary  shall  keep  a  fair  journal  of  the  meetings 
and  proceedings  of  the  board,  in  which  the  yeas  and  nays  on  all 
questions  shall  be  entered  if  required  by  two-thirds  of  the  vis¬ 
itors  present ;  and  to  all  the  books  and  papers  of  the  board  every 
visitor  shall  always  have  access  and  shall  be  permitted  to  take 
copies  of  them. 

Section  5.  The  said  visiters  may  from  time  to  time  establish 
such  colleges,  academies  and  schools  depending  upon  the  said 
University,  as  they  may"  think  proper  and  as  the  funds  of  the 
corporation  will  permit.  And  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  said 
visitors  to  visit  and  inspect  said  colleges,  academies  and  schools, 
to  examine  into  the  state  and  system  of  education  and  discipline 
therein,  and  to  make  a  yearly  report  thereof  to  the  legislature, 
to  make  such  by-laws  and  ordinances  not  inconsistent  with 
the  laws  of  the  United  States  or  of  this  territory,  as 
they  may  judge  most  expedient  for  the  government  of  such 
schools,  academies  and  colleges,  or  for  the  accomplishment  of 
the  trust  hereby  reposed  in  such  visitors,  to  appoint  a  president, 
professors,  instructors,  and  other  officers,  to  fix  their  compen¬ 
sation  and  remove  them  when  such  visitors  think  proper,  and 
also  to  confer  such  degrees  as  are  usually  conferred  by  univer¬ 
sities  established  for  the  education  of  youth. 

Section  6.  Persons  of  every  religious  denomination  shall  be 
capable  of  being  elected  visitors,  nor  shall  any  person  as  presi¬ 
dent,  professor,  instructor  or  pupil,  be  refused  admittance  for 
his  conscientious  persuasion,  in  matters  of  religion:  provided, 
he  shall  demean  himself  in  -a  proper  manner,  and  conform  to 
such  rules  as  may  be  established. 

Section  7.  This  law  may  be  repealed  or  modified  by  the  leg¬ 
islative  power  of  this  territory :  provided ,  that  such  power  of  re¬ 
peal  shall  never  extend  to  direct  to  any  other  purposes  than 
those  expressed  therein  if  any  shall  be  expressed  in  any  grant 
of  property  to  such  corporation ;  but  such  property  in  the  event 


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of  the  dissolution  of  such  corporation,  or  in  case  such  grant  shall 
be  disapproved  of  by  the  legislative  power,  shall  revert  to  the 
grantor  or  his  heirs. 

Section  8.  The  first  meeting  of  the  visitors  under  this  act 
shall  be  held  on  the  first  Monday  of  July  next,  and  they  shall 
have  power  to  adjourn  from  time  to  time,  and  to  regulate  their 
own  meetings,  and  the  notices  that  shall  be  given  of  such  meet¬ 
ing,  and  if  a  quorum  shall  not  attend  at  any  meeting,  the  vis¬ 
itors  present  may  adjourn  from  time  to  time  until  a  quorum 
shall  attend. 

Section  9.  Whenever  the  word  “territory”  occurs  in  the 
body  of  this  law  it  shall  be  read  ‘  ‘  state  ’  ’  after  this  territory  shall 
become  a  state. 


STATE  LEGISLATION 


CONSTITUTIONAL  PROVISIONS. 


State  University.  Section  6.  Provisions  shall  be  made  by 
law  for  the  establishment  of  a  state  university  at  or  near  the 
seat  of  state  government,  and  for  connecting  with  the  same,  from 
time  to  time,  such  colleges  in  different  parts  of  the  state  as  the 
interests  of  education  may  require.  The  proceeds  of  all  lands 
that  have  been  or  may  hereafter  be  granted  by  the  United  States 
to  the  state  for  the  support  of  a  university  shall  be  and  remain 
a  perpetual  fund  to  be  called  “the  university  fund,”  the  inter¬ 
est  of  which  shall  be  appropriated  to  the  support  of  the  state 
university,  and  no  sectarian  instruction  shall  be  allowed  in  such 
university. 

Commissioners  of  school  and  university  lands.  Section  7. 
The  secretary  of  state,  treasurer  and  attorney-general  shall 
constitute  a  board  of  commissioners  for  the  sale  of  the  school  and 
university  lands  and  for  the  investment  of  the  funds  arising 
therefrom.  Any  two  of  said  commissioners  shall  be  a  quorum 
for  the  transaction  of  all  business  pertaining  to  the  duties  of 
their  office. 

Lands,  how  sold;  Payment.  Section  8.  Provision  shall  be 
made  by  law  for  the  sale  of  all  school  and  university  lands  after 
they  shall  have  been  appraised ;  and  when  any  portion  of  such 
lands  shall  be  sold  and  the  purchase-money  shall  not  be  paid  at 
the  time  of  the  sale,  the  commissioners  shall  take  security  by 
mortgage  upon  the  land  sold  for  the  sum  remaining  unpaid,  with 
seven  per  cent,  interest  thereon,  payable  annually  at  the  office  of 
the  treasurer.  The  commissioners  shall  be  authorized  to  execute 
a  good  and  sufficient  conveyance  to  all  purchasers  of  such  lands, 
and  to  discharge  any  mortgages  taken  as  security,  when  the  sum 
due  thereon  shall  have  been  paid.  The  commissioners  shall  have 


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power  to  withhold  from  sale  any  portion  of  such  lands  when  they 
shall  deem  it  expedient,  and  shall  invest  all  moneys  arising  from 
the  sale  of  such  lands,  as  well  as  all  other  university  and  school 
funds,  in  such  manner  as  the  legislature  shall  provide,  and  shall 
give  such  security  for  the  faithful  performance  of  their  duties 
as  may  be  required  by  law. 


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Salaries  and  Permanent  Appropriations. 

(From  Chapter  12) 

Regents’  expenses.  Section  170 — 8.  The  regents  of  the 
university  shall  receive  no  compensation  for  their  services  but 
shall  receive  expenses  actually  and  necessarily  incurred  in  going 
to,  attending  or  returning  from  meetings  of  the  board,  or  in¬ 
curred  in  the  performance  of  any  duty  in  pursuance  of  any 
direction  of  the  board.  Said  board  shall  fix  the  salary  or  com¬ 
pensation  of  the  president,  professors,  instructors,  officers, 1  em¬ 
ployes,  and  all  other  appointees  and  subordinates  of  the  said 
board.  All  such  salaries,  compensations,  and  expenses  shall  be 
charged  to  the  proper  appropriation  for  the  board  of  regents  of 
the  university. 

Inspection  of  nurseries.  Section  170 — 34.  The  tetate 
orchard  and  nursery  inspector  shall  receive  necessary  travel¬ 
ing  expenses  when  on  official  business,  but  shall  receive 
no  further  compensation  beyond  his  regular  salary.  The  dep¬ 
uties  or  assistants  appointed  by  said  inspector  shall  receive 
necessary  traveling  expenses  when  on  official  business  and  such 
per  diem,  not  exceeding  five  dollars  per  day,  as  shall  be  fixed  by 
said  inspector  and  approved  by  the  director  of  the  agricultural 
experiment  station.  Such  per  diem  and  expenses  shall  be  charged 
against  the\  proper  appropriation  for  the  board  of  regents  of 
the  university. 

General  appropriations.  Section  172 — 53.  1.  There  is  ap¬ 
propriated  on  July  1,  1913,  one  hundred  seventy-seven  thousand 
three  hundred  eighty  dollars,  and  annually  beginning  July  1, 
1914,  two  hundred  six  thousand  one  hundred  ten  dollars,  payable 
from  any  moneys  in  the  general  fund  not  otherwise  appropriated, 
to  the  university  fund  income  to  be  used  by  the  board  of  regents 
of  the  university  for  operation  of  the  university  extension  as 
provided  by  subsection  1  of  section  1494j. 

2.  There  is  annually  appropriated  on  July  1,  twenty  thousand 
dollars,  payable  from  any  moneys  in  the  university  fund  income 


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not  otherwise  appropriated,  to  be  used  by  the  board  of  regents 
of  the  university  for  farmers’  institutes  as  provided  by  section 
1494b. 

3.  There  is  appropriated  on  July  1,  1913,  forty  thousand  dol¬ 
lars,  payable  from  any  moneys  in  the  general  fund  not  otherwise 
appropriated,  to  the  university  fund  income,  to  be  used  by  the 
board  of  regents  of  the  university  for  agricultural  extension  as 
provided  by  subsection  1  of  section  1494 — 12m. 

4.  There  is  annually  appropriated,  beginning  July  1,  1914, 
forty  thousand  dollars,  payable  from  any  moneys  in  the  univer¬ 
sity  fund  income  not  otherwise  appropriated,  to  be  used  by  the 
board  of  regents  of  the  university  for  agricultural  extension 
as  provided  by  subsection  1  of  section  1494 — 12m. 

5.  There  is  annually  appropriated  on  July  1,  one  n/Uion  three 
hundred  eighty-six  thousand  two  hundred  sixty-nine  dollars, 
payable  from  any  moneys  in  the  university  fund  income  not 
otherwise  appropriated,  to  be  used  by  the  board  of  regents  of 
the  university  for  the  operation  of  the  university  in  its  depart¬ 
ments,  colleges,  schools,  halls,  observatories,  institutions  or  ac¬ 
tivities  or  to  provide  any  means  of  instruction,  illustration  or 
knowledge  in  connection  therewith. 

6.  There  is  appropriated  on  July  X:  1913,  sixty  thousand  six 
hundred  eighty-one  dollars,  and  on  July  1,  1914,  sixty  thousand 
one  hundred  eighty-one  dollars,  payable  from  any  moneys  in 
the  university  fund  income  not  otherwise  appropriated,  to  be 
used  by  the  board  of  regents  of  the  university  for  property 
repairs  and  maintenance. 

7.  There  is  appropriated  on  July  1,  1913,  one  thousand  three 
hundred  nineteen  dollars,  and  on  July  1,  1914,  one  thousand  eight 
hundred  nineteen  dollars,  payable  from  any  moneys  in  the  gen¬ 
eral  fund  not  otherwise  appropriated,  to  the  university  fund 
income  to  be  used  by  the  board  of  regents  of  the  university  for 
property  repairs  and  maintenance. 

8.  There  is  appropriated  on  July  1,  1913,  seven  thousand  six 
hundred  twenty  dollars,  and  on  July  1,  1914,  seven  thousand  six 
hundred  twenty  dollars,  payable  from  any  moneys  in  the  general 
fund  not  otherwise  appropriated,  to  the  university  fund  income 
to  be  used  by  the  board  of  regents  of  the  university  for  the 
purchase  of  books,  educational  apparatus,  furniture  and  furnish¬ 
ings  and  other  necessary  equipment  for  the  carrying  on  of 
university  extension  as  provided  in  subsection  1  of  section  1494 j. 

9.  There  is  appropriated  on  July  1,  1913,  one  hundred  fourteen 
thousand  five  hundred  five  dollars,  and  on  July  1,  1914,  one 
hundred  fourteen  thousand  five  hundred  five  dollars,  payable 
from  any  moneys  in  the  general  fund  not  otherwise  appropriated, 
to  the  university  fund  income  to  be  used  by  the  board  of  regents 
of  the  university  for  the  purchase  of  educational  and  laboratory 
apparatus,  furniture  and  furnishings,  machinery  and  equipment, 


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tools,  live  stock,  for  improvements  to  buildings  and  grounds  and 
for  other  permanent  property  and  improvements. 

10.  There  is  appropriated  on  July  1,  1913,  fifty  thousand  nine 
hundred  dollars,  and  on  July  1, 1914,  fifty  thousand  nine  hundred 
dollars,  payable  from  any  moneys  in  the  general  fund  not  other¬ 
wise  appropriated,  to  the  university  fund  income  to  be  used  by 
the  board  of  regents  of  the  university  for  the  purchase  of  certain 
lands  described  in  section  7  of  this  act. 

Section  7.  Moneys  appropriated  by  subsection  10  of  section 
172 — 53  of  the  statutes  shall  be  used  for  the  purchase  of  the 
following  described  lands : 

(a)  Julius  E.  Olson  Lot,  described  as  follows:  Commencing 
at  a  point  on  Charter  Street,  one  hundred  sixteen  and  one-fourth 
(11614)  feet  south  of  the  Northeasterly  corner  of  Lot  Five  (5), 
Block  Two  (2)  of  Brooks’  Addition  to  the  city  of  Madison ;  thence 
west  on  a  line  parallel  with  State  Street  to  the  west  line  of  Lot 
Four  (4)  of  said  block;  thence  south  along  west  line  of  said  lot 
Four  (4)  fifty-five  (55)  feet;  thence  east  on  a  line  parallel  with 
said  State  Street  to  the  east  line  of  Lot  Five  (5)  on  Charter 
Street  ;  thence  fifty-five  (55)  feet  north  along  Charter  Street 
to  place  of  beginning. 

(b)  Fred  Schmidt  Lot,  described  as  follows:  All  of  Lot  Eight 
(8)  and  the  south  twenty-five  and  two-thirds  (25  2-3)  feet  in 
width  of  Lot  Seven  (7)  in  Block  One  (1)  of  Brooks’  Addition 
to  the  City  of  Madison,  according  to  the  recorded  plat  thereof. 

(c)  Harvey  Sandell  Lot,  described  as  follows:  The  east 
twenty-six  and  thirteen-twentieths  (26  13-20)  feet  of  the  north 
fifty-seven  (57)  feet  of  Lot  No.  Two  (2)  and  the  north  fifty- 
seven  (57)  feet  of  the  West  Half  (%•)  of  Lot  No.  Three  (3),  all 
in  Block  One  (1)  in  Brooks’  Addition  to  the  City  of  Madison, 
according  to^the  recorded  plat  thereof. 

(d)  Katherine  Gundlach  Lot,  described  as  follows:  Lot  Six¬ 
teen  (16)  of  Block  One  (1)  in  Brooks’  Addition  to  the  City  of 
Madison,  according  to  the  recorded  plat  thereof. 

(e)  James  B.  Ramsay  Lot,  described  as  follows:  Lot  Seven 
(7)  of  Block  Two  (2)  in  Brooks’  Addition  to  the  City  of  Madison, 
except  the  South  Twenty-one  (21)  feet  six  (6)  inches  of  said  lot, 
according  to  the  recorded  plat  thereof. 

(f)  Henry  Scheidler  Lot,  described  as  follows:  The  South  One- 
Half  (1-2)  of  Lot  Five  (5)  of  Block  One  (1)  of  Brooks’ Addition 
to  the  City  of  Madison,  according  to  the  recorded  plat  thereof. 

(g)  Frank  Fleckenstein  Lot,  described  as  follows:  The  North 
Eighty-four  (84)  feet  on  Warren  Street  by  Fifty-six  (56)  feet 
deep  of  Lot  Thirteen  (13)  of  Block  One  (1)  in  Brooks'  Addition 
to  the  City  of  Madison,  according  to  the  recorded  plat  thereof. 

(h)  John  Streber  Lot,  described  as  follows:  The  East  Three- 
Fourths  (3-4)  of  Lot  Four  (4)  of  Block  One  (1)  in  Brooks’  Ad- 


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dition  to  the  City  of  Madison,  according  to  the  recorded  plat 
thereof. 

(i)  William  C.  Stehr  Lot,  described  as  follows:  Lot  Fourteen 
(14)  of  Block  One  (1)  in  Brooks’  Addition  to  the  City  of  Mad¬ 
ison,  according  to  the  recorded  plat  thereof. 

(j)  Martin  Endres  Lot,  described  as  follows:  All  of  Lot  one 

(I)  and  the  North  nineteen  (19)  feet  in  width  of  Lot  Two  (2) 
in  Block  One  of  Wald’s  Subdivision  of  a  part  of  the  Northwest 
Quarter  (NW  1-4)  of  the  Northeast  Quarter  (NE  1-4)  of  Sec¬ 
tion  Twenty-two  (22)  Township  Seven  (7)  North,  Range  Nine 
(9)  East,  according  to  the  recorded  plat  thereof. 

(k)  B.  W.  Reynolds  Lots,  described  as  follows:  Lots  Fourteen 
(14)  and  Fifteen  (15)  Block  Two  (2)  in  Brooks’  Addition  to 
the  City  of  Madison,  according  to  the  recorded  plat  thereof. 

(l)  Michael  M.  Wald  Lot,  described  as  follows:  Lot  Eleven 

(II)  Block  Two  (2)  of  Brooks’  Addition  to  the  City  of  Madison, 
according  to  the  recorded  plat  thereof. 

(m)  Fred  Koch  Land,  described  as  follows:  All  that  part  of 
the  East-Half  (1-2)  of  the  Northeast  Quarter  (NE  1-4)  of  Sec¬ 
tion  Nineteen  (19)  in. Township  Seven  (7)  North  of  Range  Nine 
,(9)  East,  lying  south  of  the  railroad  right  of  way. 

11.  There  is  appropriated  on  July  1,  1913,  seven  thousand  five 
hundred  dollars,  payable  from  any  moneys  in  the  general  fund 
not  otherwise  appropriated,  to  the  university  fund  income  to 
be  used  by  the  board  of  regents  of  the  university  for  the  building 
and  equipment  of  boat  and  bath  houses,  and  for  the  remodeling 
of  present  boathouse  buildings. 

12.  There  is  appropriated  On  March  1,  1915,  three  hundred 
thousand  dollars,  payable  from  any  moneys  in  the  general  fund 
not  otherwise  appropriated,  to  the  university  fund  income  to  be 
used  by  the  board  of  regents  of  the  university  for  the  construc¬ 
tion  of  a  men’s  dormitory  and  commons  and  union. 

13.  There  is  appropriated  on  March  1,  1915,  fifty  thousand 
dollars,  payable  from  any  moneys  in  the  general  fund  not  other¬ 
wise  appropriated,  to  the  university  fund  income  to  be  used  by 
the  board  of  regents  of  the  university  for  the  equipment  of  men’s 
dormitory,  commons  and  union  and  other  student  buildings. 

14.  There  is  appropriated  on  July  1, 1913,  sixty-three  thousand 
five  hundred  dollars,  and  on  March  1,  1914,  two  hundred  eighty- 
two  thousand  dollars,  and  on  March  1,  1915,  three  hundred 
thousand  dollars,  payable  from  any  moneys  in  the  general  fund 
not  otherwise  appropriated,  to  the  university  fund  income  to  be 
used  by  the  board  of  regents  of  the  university  for  the  construc¬ 
tion  and  equipment  of  certain  buildings  and  permanent  improve¬ 
ments  within  the  amounts  set  forth  as  follows: 

Wing  to  agricultural  soils  building,  fifty-eight  thousand  dol¬ 
lars; 

Agricultural  college  library  annex,  six  thousand  dollars ; 


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Wisconsin  high  school  building,  forty-five  thousand  dollars; 

Shop  building  and  modifications  of  old  shop  building,  fifty 
thousand  dollars; 

Liberal  arts  building,  one  hundred  fifty  thousand  dollars ; 

New  boilers  and  other  permanent  improvements  at  the  heating 
plant,  fifteen  thousand  dollars ; 

Medical  or  physics  building,  two  hundred  thousand  dollars ; 

Stone  work  for  Lincoln  statute,  nine  thousand  dollars; 

Equipment  for  new  educational  buildings,  one  hundred  thou¬ 
sand  dollars ; 

Permanent  improvements  in  the  buildings  for  animal  hus¬ 
bandry  ;  improvements  on  the  buildings  on  the  Raymer  farm ; 
new  barn  on  the  Hill  farm  •  improvements  in  agricultural  hall ; 
construction  of  small  structures  at  branch  experimental  stations 
at  Ashland  Junction,  Spooner,  Marshfield,  Superior,  Ellis  Junc¬ 
tion,  and  for  other  permanent  property  and  improvements, 
twelve  thousand  five  hundred  dollars. 

The  board  of  regents  of  the  university  are  authorized  to  re¬ 
apportion  the  total  amounts  appropriated  by  this  subsection,  but 
such  reapportionment  shall  not  change  any  item  of  the  foregoing 
distribution  more  than  ten  per  cent. 

15.  There  is  annually  appropriated  on  July  1,  three  thousand 
dollars,  payable  from  any  moneys  in  the  university  fund  income 
not  otherwise  appropriated,  to  be  used  by  the  board  of  regents 
of  the  university  for  seed  inspection  as  provided  by  sections  1494x 
— 1  to  1494x — 15,  inclusive. 

16.  (a)  There  is  annually  appropriated  for  four  years,  be¬ 
ginning  July  1,  1913,  one  thousand  dollars,  payable  from  any 
moneys  in  the  general  fund  not  otherwise  appropriated,  to  the 
university  fund  income  to  be  used  by  the  board  of  regents  of  the 
university  for  the  partial  maintenance  of  the  Douglas  county 
demonstration  station. 

(b)  There  is  annually  appropriated  for  five  years,  beginning 
July  1,  1913,  two  thousand  dollars,  payable  from  any  moneys 
in  the  general  fund  not  otherwise  appropriated,  to  the  university 
fund  income  to  be  used  by  the  board  of  regents  of  the  university 
for  the  partial  maintenance  of  the  Rusk  county  demonstration 
station  and  for  one  additional  station  to  be  organized  in  accord¬ 
ance  with  the  provisions  of  section  392em — 8.  Provided  that  one 
thousand  dollars  of  this  sum  shall  be  used  annually  for  the  Rusk 
county  demonstration  station. 

17.  There  is  annually  appropriated  on  July  first,  fifteen 
thousand  dollars,  and  in  addition  on  July  1,  1914,  two  thousand 
dollars,  payable  from  any  moneys  in  the  university  fund  income 
not  otherwise  appropriated  to  be  used  by  the  board  of  regents 
of  the  university  for  paper,  plates,  illustrations,  printing  and 
binding  of  the  reports  and  bulletins  of  the  agricultural  experi¬ 
ment  station. 


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18.  The  secretary  of  state,  if  in  his  judgment  the  conditions 
of  the  general  fund  will  warrant  it,  with  the  approval  of  the 
governor,  is  authorized  to  transfer,  after  the  beginning  of  each 
fiscal  year  and  before  the  collection  of  the  tax  provided  for  the 
support  of  the  university  for  such  fiscal  year,  from  the  general 
fund  to  the  university  fufid  income,  such  sum  or  sums  as  may 
be  necessary  to  meet  current  expenses  of  the  university;  but 
immediately  upon  the  collection  of  such  tax  for  any  fiscal  year 
for  the  support  of  the  university  the  secretary  of  state  shall 
transfer  the  amount  so  loaned  from  the  university  fund  income 
to  the  general  fund  by  a  proper  transfer. 

19.  All  moneys  in  the  agricultural  college  fund  income  or 
which  may  hereafter  come  into  such  fund  shall  be  transferred 
to  the  university  fund  ilicome  and  shall  be  available  for  meet¬ 
ing  the  appropriations  made  from  the  university  fund  income 
for  agricultural  college  purposes  and  for  no  other  purpose. 

20.  There  is  appropriated  on  July  1,  1913,  and  on  July  1, 
1914,  two  thousand  five  hundred  dollars,  payable  from  any 
moneys  in  the  general  fund,  not  otherwise  appropriated,  for 
the  regents  of  the  university  for  the  preparation  and  distribu¬ 
tion  of  hog  cholera  serums  as  provided  in  section  392em — 10. 

21.  There  is  annually  appropriated  on  July  first,  twenty-five 
hundred  dollars,  payable  from  any  moneys  in  the  general  fund, 
not  otherwise  appropriated,  to  the  regents  of  the  university  for 
the  department  of  pharmacy,  to  carry  out  the  provisions  of  sec¬ 
tion  392em — 12. 

22.  There  is  appropriated  on  January  1,  1914,  to  the  regents 
of  the  university,  ten  thousand  dollars,  payable  from  any  moneys 
in  the  general  fund  not  otherwise  appropriated,  for  carrying  out 
the  provisions  of  sections  553q — 1  to  553q — 8,  inclusive. 

23.  There  is  appropriated  on  January  1,  1915,  to  the  regents 
of  the  university,  sixteen  thousand  dollars,  payable  from  any 
moneys  in  the  general  fund  not  otherwise  appropriated,  for 
carrying  out  the  provisions  of  sections  553q — 1  to  553q — 8,  in¬ 
clusive. 

24.  There  is  annually  appropriated  beginning  January  1, 
1916,  to  the  regents  of  the  university,  payable  from  any  moneys 
in  the  general  fund  not  otherwise  appropriated,  a  sum  sufficient 
to  carry  out  the  provisions  of  sections  553q — 1  to  553q; — 8,  in¬ 
clusive. 

25.  There  is  annually  appropriated  on  July  first,  two  thousand 
dollars,  payable  from  any  moneys  in  the  general  fund  not  other¬ 
wise  appropriated,  to  the  agricultural  college  income  fund  for 
the  state  soils  laboratory  to  carry  into  effect  the  provisions  of 
section  392em — 8a. 

26.  All  moneys  received  by  the  state  soils  laboratory  in  carry¬ 
ing  out  the  provisions  of  section  392em — 8a,  shall  be  paid  within 
one  week  of  receipt  into  the  agricultural  college  income  fund  of 


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the  state  treasury,  and  all  moneys  so  deposited  are  appropriated 
for  said  laboratory  to  carry  into  effect  the  provisions  of  section 
392em — 8a. 

27.  All  moneys  received  by  each  and  every  person,  for  or  on 
account  of  dormitories  and  dining  halls  at  the  university,  shall 
be  paid  within  one  week  of  receipt  into  the  university  fund  in¬ 
come  and  all  moneys  so  deposited  are  appropriated  to  the  board 
of  regents  of  the  university  as  a  revolving  appropriation  for  the 
operation  and  maintenance  of  such  dormitories  and  dining  halls. 

28.  All  moneys  received  by  each  and  every  person  as  deposits 
or  payments  for  breakage,  consumption  and  wear  of  laboratory 
equipment,  apparatus  and  supplies  shall  be  paid  within  one  week 
of  receipt  into  the  universty  fund  income  and  all  moneys  so  de¬ 
posited,  are  appropriated  to  the  board  of  regents  of  the  univer¬ 
sity  as  a  revolving  appropriation,  for  the  purchase  and  repairs 
of  such  equipment,  apparatus  and  supplies  for  such  laboratories. 

29.  All  moneys  received  by  each  and  every  person  for  or  on 
account  of  the  sale  of  dairy  products  and  on  account  of  dairy 
tests  shall  be  paid  within  one  week  of  receipt  into  the  university 
fund  income  and  all  moneys  so  deposited  are  appropriated  to 
the  board  of  regents  of  the  university  as  a  revolving  appropria¬ 
tion  for  the  purchase  of  dairy  products,  but  any  surplus  ac¬ 
cumulated  to  the  credit  of  this  appropriation,  which  is  not  re¬ 
quired  for  the  purchase  of  dairy  products,  may  be  expended  for 
other  agricultural  college  purposes. 

30.  All  moneys  received  by  each  and  every  person  from  coun¬ 
ties  for  or  on  account  of  agricultural  demonstration  stations 
organized  in  such  counties  under  the  provisions  of  section 
392em — 8,  shall  be  paid  within  one  week  of  receipt  into  the  uni¬ 
versity  fund  income  and  are  appropriated  to  the  board  of  re¬ 
gents  of  the  university  as  a  revolving  appropriation  for  carrying 
ing  on  such  agricultural  demonstration  work. 

31.  All  moneys  received  by  each  and  every  person  as  fees 
for  the  use  and  wear  of  gymnasium  lockers,  equipment,  ap¬ 
paratus,  laundry,  and  other  supplies,  shall  be  paid  within  one 
week  of  receipt  into  the  university  fund  income  and  are  ap¬ 
propriated  to  the  board  of  regents  of  the  university  as  a  revolv¬ 
ing  appropriation  for  the  purchase  of  laundry  service  and  the 
purchase  and  repair  of  lockers,  equipment,  apparatus  and  sup¬ 
plies  above  mentioned. 

32.  All  moneys  collected  or  received  by  each  and  every  per¬ 
son  for  or  on  account  of  the  university  extension  division  in 
payment  for  lectures,  concerts  and  entertainments,  given  by 
special  arrangement,  by  people  not  on  the  regular  staff  of  the 
university  in  any  of  its  departments,  colleges  or  activities,  shall 
be  paid  within  one  week  of  receipt  into  the  university  fund  in¬ 
come,  and  all  moneys  so  deposited  are  appropriated  to  the  board 
of  regents  of  the  university  as  a  revolving  appropriation  to  be 


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used  towards  payment  of  necessary  expenses  incurred  in  furn¬ 
ishing  such  lectures,  concerts  and  entertainments,  but  no  part 
of  such  moneys  shall  be  used  for  the  payment,  in  whole  or  in 
part,  of  any  of  the  salaries  of  any  person  or  persons  regularly 
employed  in  any  department,  college  or  activity  of  the  university. 

33.  All  moneys  belonging  to  or  held  by  the  athletic  council 
or  any  similar  organization  of  the  university  which  may  be  in 
the  possession,  care  or  custody  of  any  person  or  persons  at  the 
time  of  passage  of  this  act,  shall  be  deposited  within  one  week 
into  the  university  fund  income,  and  all  moneys  hereafter  re¬ 
ceived  or  collected  by  each  and  every  person  for  or  on  account 
of  the  athletic  council  or  any  similar  organization  of  the  univer¬ 
sity  shall  be  paid  within  one  week  of  receipt  into  the  university 
fund  income.  All  moneys  so  deposited  are  appropriated  to  the 
board  of  regents  of  the  university  to  be  used  for  the  purposes 
of  the  athletic  council  or  such  similar  organization,  as  a  revolv¬ 
ing  appropriation  for  carrying  out  the  powers,  duties  and  func¬ 
tions  of  such  council  or  similar  organization. 

34.  All  gifts,  grants,  bequests  and  devises  from  individuals, 
partnerships,  associations  or  corporations  and  all  subventions 
from  the  federal  government  for  or  in  behalf  of  the  university 
or  any  department  thereof  or  any  purpose  connected  therewith, 
are  appropriated  to  the  board  of  regents  of  the  university  and 
shall  be  used  according  to  the  provisions  of  the  instrument  or 
act  making  the  same  and  all  such  receipts  shall  be  paid  into  the 
university  fund  income,  agricultural  college  fund  income  or  into 
such  other  fund  of  the  state  treasury  as  the  board  of  regents 
of  the  university  shall  designate,  unless  the  provisions  of  the 
instrument  or  act  making  the  gift,  grant,  bequest,  devise  or  sub¬ 
vention  shall  be  inconsistent  with  or  repugnant  to  the  provisions 
of  this  subsection  requiring  such  payment  into  the  state  treas¬ 
ury. 

35.  All  moneys  in  the  university  fund  income  at  the  close  of 
business  on  June  30,  1913,  and  all  moneys  belonging  to  such 
fund  by  reason  of  appropriations  in  force  at  that  date,  and  not 
repealed  by  this  act,  are  hereby  appropriated  and  made  avail¬ 
able  to  the  board  of  regents  of  the  university  for  carrying  out 
the  purposes  for  which  such  appropriations  were  made  and  for 
the  payment  of  indebtedness  incurred  prior  to  July  1,  1913. 
All  such  moneys  not  required  for  either  of  the  above  purposes 
shall  be  available  on  and  after  July  1,  1913,  to  meet  appropria¬ 
tions  made  from  the  university  fund  income,  and  an  amount 
equal  to  such  moneys  not  required  for  either  of  the  above  pur¬ 
poses  is  appropriated  on  July  1,  1914,  to  the  board  of  regents 
of  the  university  for  operating  expenses  of  the  university  for 
the  fiscal  year  beginning  July  1,  1914. 

36.  Appropriations  made  in  section  4  of  this  act  shall  be  of 
the  date  of  July  1,  1913,  unless  otherwise  specified  and  shall  be 


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available  immediately  after  passage  and  publication  to  pay  in¬ 
debtedness  incurred  on  or  after  July  1,  1913;,  unless  otherwise 
specified,  and  the  appropriations  made  in  section  4  of  this  act 
shall  not  be  construed  as  affecting  any  appropriation  not  made 
or  repealed  in  sections  4  or  5  thereof. 

40.  All  moneys  received  by  each  and  every  person  for  or  in 
behalf  of  the  board  of  regents  of  the  university,  or  in  behalf  of 
any  department,  college  or  activity  thereof,  or  in  behalf  of  the 
university  fund  income  or  agricultural  fund  income,  shall,  un¬ 
less  otherwise  provided  by  law,  be  paid  within  one  week  of  re¬ 
ceipt  into  the  state  treasury  and  such  deposits  shall  be  added  to 
the  university  fund  income  or  other  proper  fund  of  the  state 
treasury  and  shall  be  expended  therefrom  only  in  pursuance  of 
an  appropriation  by  law. 


Trust  Funds  and  Their  Management. 

(From  Chapter  17) 

University  fund.  Section  248.  All  moneys  paid  into  the 
treasury  on  account  of  the  capital  of  the  university  fund  shall 
be  and  remain  a  separate  and  perpetual  fund  as  required  by 
the  constitution;  and  the  interest  derived  therefrom  and  from 
unpaid  balances  of  purchase  money  on  sale  of  university  lands 
and  all  other  revenues  derived  from  the  university  lands  shall 
constitute  the  university  fund  income. 

Agricultural  college  fund.  Section  249.  1.  All  moneys 

paid  into  the  treasury  on  account  of  the  sales  of  agricultural  col¬ 
lege  lands  shall  be  and  remain  a  separate  and  perpetual  fund, 
the  capital  of  which  shall  continue  forever  undiminished,  to  be 
called  the  agricultural  college  fund;  and  the  interest  derived 
therefrom  and  from  unpaid  balances  of  purchase,  money  on  sales 
of  such  lands  and  all  other  revenues  derived  from  such  lands 
shall  constitute  the  agricultural  college  fund  income.  If  any 
portion  of  such  fund  shall  by  any  action  or  contingency  be  di¬ 
minished  or  lost  the  secretary  of  state  shall  add  to  the  next  state 
tax  to  be  levied  thereafter  a  sum  sufficient  to  replace  the  same, 
to  be,  when  collected,  credited  to  said  fund. 

2.  If  for  any  year  the  income  from  the  agricultural  college 
fund  is  less  than  five  per  cent  on  the  principal,  the  regents  of 
the  university  are  authorized  and  required  to  transfer  from  the 
university  fund  income  to  the  agricultural  college  fund  income 
an  amount  necessary  to  meet  the  difference  between  the  interest 
actually  received  and  the  amount  which  would  have  been  yielded 
had  the  income  been  at  the  rate  of  five  per  cent. 

In  what  made.  Section  258.  1.  The  said  commissioners  of 

the  public  lands  shall,  in  their  discretion,  invest  the  moneys  be- 


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longing  to  the  school  fund,  the  university  fund,  the  agricultural 
college  fund,  and  the  normal  school  fund,  from  time  to  time  as 
such  moneys  may  be  paid  into  the  treasury,  keeping  separate  the 
investments  of  each  fund,  in  the  following-named  stocks  and 
loans,  but  in  no  other  manner,  to  wit: 

(1)  In  the  purchase  of  the  bonds  of  this  state,  to  be  replaced 
by  certificates  of  indebtedness  as  hereinafter  provided. 

(2)  In  loans  to  school  districts  in  the  state,  or  to  the  school 
directors  of  any  town  therein  in  which  the  township  system  of 
schools  exists,  as  hereinafter  provided,  for  the  purpose  of  erect¬ 
ing  school  buildings  or  refunding  their  indebtedness,  but  for  no 
other  purpose. 

(3)  In  approved  mortgages  on  agricultural  lands  as  provided 
in  section  258m  of  the  statutes. 

(3a)  In  county  bonds  issued  under  the  authority  conferred  by 
section  697 — 60  of  the  statutes. 

(4)  In  the  bonds  of  the  United  States,  Maine,  New  Hampshire, 
Vermont,  Massachusetts,  Rhode  Island,  Connecticut,  New  York, 
Ohio,  Michigan,  Illinois,  and  Iowa,  and  in  the  bonds  of  cities, 
villages,  towns  and  counties  of  this  state  issued  pursuant  to  law 
since  the  adoption  of  the  amendment  to  section  3  of  article  XI 
of  the  constitution  of  this  state ;  all  such  bonds  to  be  deposited 
with  the  state  treasurer. 

(5)  In  loans  to  towns,  villages,  cities,  counties  and  boards  of 
education,  duly  incorporated  as  such,  of  any  city  within  this 
state,  as  hereinafter  provided ;  and  every  such  town,  village,  city, 
county  and  board  of  education,  is  empowered  to  borrow  of  said 
commissioners,  from  said  funds  or  either  of  them,  such  sum  or 
sums  of  money,  for  such  time  and  upon  such  conditions  as  may 
be  agreed  upon  between  said  commissioners  and  the  town,  vil¬ 
lage,  city,  county  or  board  of  education  applying  for  a  loan, 
subject,  however,  to  the  limitations,  restrictions  and  conditions 
hereinafter  set  forth. 

2.  The  preference  in  investing  the  trust  funds  shall  be  given 
to  the  loans  provided  for  in  subdivisions  (2),  (3)  land  (3a)  of 
subsection  1  in  the  order  named. 


(From  Chapter  20.) 

Public  Printing. 

Official  reports.  Section  20.24.  All  reports  of  state  officers, 
departments,  boards,  commissions  and  commissioners  shall  be 
made  biennially,  except  those  required  by  law  to  be  made  an¬ 
nually.  Biennial  reports  shall  cover  the  two  years  next  pre¬ 
ceding  the  first  day  of  July  of  each  even-numbered  year,  except 
the  reports  of  the  state  board  of  forestry,  the  state  board  of 
agriculture,  the  state  board  of  immigration,  and  of  the  state 


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superintendent,  which  shall  cover  the  two  years  next  preceding 
the  first  day  of  January  of  each  odd-numbered  year;  and  an¬ 
nual  reports  shall  cover  one  year  next  preceding  the  first  day 
of  July  of  every  year.  Every  such  report  shall  set  forth  all 
receipts  and  disbursements  in  full  and  in  detail,  and  be  filed 
with  the  governor  within  sixty  days  next  following  the  period 
covered.  A  duplicate  of  each  report  shall  at  the  same  time  be 
presented  by  its  author  to  the  printing  board.  No  report  shall 
contain  any  advertising  matter  nor  any  copying  of  the  Wiscon¬ 
sin  session  laws  or  statutes,  except  minor  extracts  explanatory 
of  and  incorporated  in  the  text.  The  detailed  tables  of  pur¬ 
chases  in  the  report  of  the  board  of  control  shall  not  be  printed. 
^Before  filing  any  report  its  author  shall  carefully  edit  the  same 
and  strike  therefrom  all  journals  and  minutes  of  proceedings 
and  all  correspondence,  petitions,  orders  and  other  documents 
or  writings  whose  substance  can  be  briefly  stated,  consolidate, 
so  far  as  practicable,  statistical  tables  and  strike  out  all  matter 
which  is  of  interest  to  individuals  chiefly  and  not  important  in¬ 
formation  concerning  public  affairs.  The  printing  board  shall 
order  each  duplicate  report,  ascertained  upon  careful  examina 
tion  to  be  in  compliance  with  law,  to  be  printed.  Any  dupli¬ 
cate  report  failing  to  comply  substantially  with  this  section  shall 
be  returned  to  its  author  for  correction,  and  until  made  so  to 
comply,  shall  not  be  printed.  All  reports  shall  be  deposited  for 
safe-keeping.  No  publication  shall  have  written  or  printed 
thereon  nor  attached  thereto  the  words  “Compliments  of,”  fol¬ 
lowed  by  the  name  of  the  author,  nor  any  other  word  of  similar 
purport. 

Limitation  of  editions  of  governor's  messages  and  offi¬ 
cial  reports.  Section  20.25.  Within  sixty  days  after  receiving 
printer  ’s  copy  therefor  the  state  printer  shall  print  and  deliver 
two  thousand  copies  of  every  general  message  addressed  by  the 
governor  to  any  general  or  special  session  of  the  legislature,  and 
editions  of  the  reports  mentioned  in  section  20.24,  limited  as 
follows : 

Maximum  *  Maximum 
REPORT.  number  number 

of  copies.  of  pages. 


Of  the  board  of  regents  of  the  university  .  .1,000 


400 


Of  any  report  now  or  hereafter  required  by  law  to  be  made 
to  the  governor  or  to  the  legislature  not  enumerated  in  this  sec¬ 
tion  nor  otherwise  limited,  such  number  of  copies  containing 
such  number  of  pages  each,  as  may  be  ordered  by  the  printing 
board. 


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47 


Plates  and  illustrations.  Section  20.285.  (1)  Upon 

the  requisition  of  any  officer,  board,  commission,  department  or 
institution  entitled  to  obtain  public  printing,  the  printing  board 
may,  in  its  discretion,  order  the  making  of  the  necessary  plates 
for,  and  the  printing  of,  maps,  charts,  pictures,  tabulations  and 
other  exhibits,  to  be  bound  as  inserts  or  to  be  mounted  or  used 
separately;  may  cause  to  be  made  the  necessary  plates  for,  and 
procure,  at  not  to  exceed  regular  commercial  prices,  litho¬ 
graphed,  engraved  or  embossed  stationery.  Such  electrotypes 
and  other  plates  excepting  plates  for  maps  and  lithographed, 
engraved  or  embossed  stationery,  necessary  for  such  printing, 
shall  be  delivered  to  and  be  receipted  and  accounted  for  by  the 
state  printer. 

University  and  normal  school  printing.  Section  20.32. 
Upon  receiving  printer’s  copy  and  the  necessary  requisitions 
from  the  respective  boards  of  regents  of  the  University  of  Wiscon¬ 
sin  and  of  the  state  normal  schools,  the  printing  board  shall 
order  the  state  printer  to  do  all  book,  catalogue,  bulletin  and 
other  printing,  exclusive  of  job  work,  which  is  required  for  the 
use  of  said  university,  including  all  of  its  departments  and 
officers,  and  for  the  use  of  said  normal  schools. 

Job  printing  and  all  printing  not  otherwise  classified. 
Section  20.33.  (1)  Job  printing  includes  all  such  labels,  en¬ 

velops,  letterheads,  noteheads,  billheads,  blanks  of  all  kinds, 
blank  books,  folders,  circulars,  postal  cards,  announcements, 
instructions,  bulletins,  cards  for  card  catalogues,  indexes,  ques¬ 
tions  for  bar,  medical,  civil  service,  teachers’  or  other  examina¬ 
tions,  slips,  pay  rolls,  statements,  tables  of  receipts  and  dis¬ 
bursements,  certificates,  directories,  election  and  other  notices, 
sample  ballots,  lists  of  candidates,  and  such  other  printing  not 
specified  in  this  chapter  as  may  be  permitted  or  required  by  law 
and  necessary  for  the  use  of  the  University  of  Wisconsin,  all 
state  normal  schools,  the  state  historical  society,  and  each  state 
officer,  department,  board,  commission  or  commissioner,  includ¬ 
ing  such  binding  as  may  be  needed  in  connection  with  such 
printing;  and  the  printing  board  shall  order  all  such  printing 
to  be  done  by  the  state  printer  upon  receiving  printer’s  copy 
and  the  necessary  requisitions  therefor  from  the  respective 
institutions,  boards,  commissions  and  officers.  The  form  of  all 
blank  pay  rolls  and  expense  sheets  to  be  used  by  any  agent, 
officer,  board,  commission  or  commissioner  of  the  state  shall  be 
prepared  by  the  secretary  of  state. 

Sale  of  printed  matter.  Section  20.33.  (2)  A  price 

list  of  all  printed  matter  on  hand  for  sale  shall  be  prepared 
from  time  to  time  by  the  superintendent  of  public  property 
which  the  printing  board  shall  have  printed  and  bound  as  an 
advertisement  in  such  of  the  state  publications  as  the  board  shall 


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designate  for  that  purpose;  and  the  board  may  require  said 
superintendent  to  circulate  such  price  list  by  mail. 

Size  of  pages,  style  of  type.  Section  20.34.  The  printed 
matter,  including  page  titles  and  page  numbers,  of  each  full 
page  of  the  printing  enumerated  in  this  section,  shall  measure 
and  be  printed  from  type  as  herein  specified:  *  *  * 

(6)  Of  the  matter  printed  for  *  *  *  the  ^university 
*  *  * ;  of  all  pamphlets,  bulletins  and  magazines  not  pre¬ 

viously  specified  in  this  section  and  of  all  job  printing,  the  size 
of  page  and  kind  of  type  specified  in  the  requisition  therefor, 
unless  ordered  otherwise  by  the  printing  board;  but  so  far  as 
suitable  and  practicable  said  board  shall  order  them  to  con¬ 
form  as  to  type  and  size  of  pages  to  the  printed  official  reports. 
The  spacing  between  lines  of  session  laws,  statutes  and  annota¬ 
tions  shall  be  satisfactory  to  the  revisor,  and  of  all  other  print¬ 
ing  satisfactory  to  the  printing  board. 

Quality  of  paper.  Section  20.35.  The  paper  used  for  print¬ 
ing  Wisconsin  session  laws,  Wisconsin  blue  book,  collected  state 
documents,  the  bound  volumes  of  opinions  of  the  attorney-gen¬ 
eral,  and  of  decisions  of  the  railroad  commission,  and  all  mes¬ 
sages,  official  reports,  transactions,  proceedings  and  bulletins 
which  are  reissued  as  collected  state  documents,  shall  be  the 
best  quality  of  S.  and  S..C.  book  paper,  weighing  fifty  pounds 
per  ream  of  sheets  twenty-five  inches  by  thirty-eight  inches ; 
all  other  printing  done  by  state  printers,  exclusive  of  legislative 
printing,  shall  be  upon  such  paper  as  shall  be  determined  by 
the  printing  board. 

Binding.  Section  20.37.  The  public  printing  supplied  by  the 
state  printer,  exclusive  of  legislative  and  job  printing,  shall 

unless  otherwise  ordered  be  bound  as  specified  in  this  section : 

*  #  # 

(6)  Town  laws  and  other  special  editions  of  statutes,  gover¬ 
nor’s  messages,  official  reports,  pamphlets,  magazines,  bulletins, 
transactions  and  proceedings  of  societies  and  associations — in 
paper,  wire-stitched,  except  a  part  of  some  of  them  whch  shall 
be  bound  in  cloth,  machine  sewed,  as  follow's :  *  *  * 

Reports  of  regents  of  university,  five  hundred  copies.  *  *  * 

(8)  All  binding  for  the  university  and  normal  schools  shall 
be  such  as  shall  be  specified  in  the  requisitions  therefor  unless 

the  printing  board,  in  its  discretion,  shall  order  otherwise. 

*  #  * 

Authority  for  printing;  increase  and  diminution  of  edi¬ 
tions  and  pages.  Section  20.38.  The  printing  board  shall  not 
order  any  printing  not  authorized  by  law  nor  any  quantity  in 
excess  of  the  legal  limitation  thereof,  except  that  the  number  of 
copies  and  the  number  of  pages  prescribed  in  this  chapter  for 
any  official  report,  transactions  or  proceedings,  which  is  required 
to  reappear  in  the  collected  state  documents,  may  be  enlarged 


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49 


upon  the  written  request  of  its  author  by  an  order  made  by  a 
majority  of  said  board  recorded  before  the  printing  order  is 
made.  If  experience  shall  demonstrate  that  the  number  of 
copies  or  the  number  of  pages  specified  in  this  chapter  for  the 
editions  of  the  blue  book,  of  the  collected  state  documents,  or  of 
any  official  report,  proceeding  or  transaction  collected  therein, 
exceeds  the  actual  lawful  demand  therefor,  the  number  of  vol¬ 
umes  or  pages  thereafter  to  be  printed  shall  be  still  further 
reduced  and  limited  by  the  recorded  order  of  the  printing  board 
to  such  number  as  will  supply  such  demand  and  no  more.  In 
like  manner,  any  specification  in  any  requisition  for  printing 
of  the  number  of  copies  of  any  folder,  bulletin,  pamphlet,  maga¬ 
zine  or  other  document,  which  is  required  to  be  distributed  by 
the  superintendent  of  public  property  shall  be  reduced  by  the 
printing  board  to  the  actual  probable  demand  therefor,  as  de¬ 
termined  by  said  board  from  previous  experience  in  such  dis¬ 
tribution.  Power  to  make  such  further  limitations  is  vested  in 
said  board. 

Printing  orders;  form;  when  issued.  Section  20.39.  No 
state  printer  shall  be  paid  for  any  printing  not  authorized  by  a 
written  order  of  the  printing  board  or  of  a  chief  clerk  of  the 
legislature.  Every  such  order  shall  designate  the  class  of  the 
required  printing,  plainly  state  the  quantity  and  kind  thereof 
and  be  issued  in  duplicate  with  a  stub  copy  preserved.  A 
separate  series  of  stubs  and  duplicates  shall  be  used  for  each  class 
of  printing,  and  shall  be  numbered  consecutively  throughout 
each  contract  period,  beginning  with  number  one,  each  stub  and 
its  accompanying  duplicates  bearing  the  same  number.  No  dis¬ 
cretionary  order  for  printing  shall  issue  unless  said  board  is 
satisfied  that  the  public  welfare  will  be  promoted  by  the  re¬ 
quested  printing  sufficiently  to  justify  the  cost  thereof.  All 
stubs  of  orders  issued  by  chief  clerks  of  the  legislature  shall,  at 
the  close  of  the  session,  be  filed  with  the  printing  board. 

Title  pages,  names  of  authors.  Section  20.40.  The  state 
printer  shall  provide  the  necessary  printer’s  copy  for  a  suit¬ 
able  title  page,  containing  the  name  of  the  author,  and  print 
the  same  with  every  book  and  other  document  printed  by  him 
which  requires  a  title  page ;  but  no  such  publication  shall  have 
written  or  printed  thereon,  nor  attached  thereto,  the  words 
“Compliments  of”  followed  by  the  name  of  the  author,  nor  any 
other  words  of  similar  purport. 

Editing  printer’s  copy.  Section  20.41.  Printer’s  copy 
must  accompany  every  requisition.  The  University  of  Wiscon¬ 
sin,  the  state  normal  schools,  the  state  historical  society,  Wis¬ 
consin  academy  of  sciences,  arts  and  letters,  Wisconsin  archeo¬ 
logical  society,  board  of  commissioners  of  the  geological  and 
natural  history  survey,  Wisconsin  history  commission,  Wiscon- 


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sin  branch  of  the  American  institute  of  criminal  law  and  crim¬ 
inology,  and  the  legislature  or  either  house  thereof  may  deter¬ 
mine  for  themselves  the  matter  and  form  of  the  contents  of  the 
printer’s  copy  presented  by  them  respectively  to  the  printing 
board  or  to  the  state  printer.  All  other  printer’s  copy  which, 
in  the  opinion  of  the  printing  board,  contains  matter  inappro¬ 
priate  or  unnecessary  to  be  printed,  or  matters  not  properly 
edited  and  condensed;  or  is  for  any  other  reason  unfit  to  go  to 
the  printer,  shall  be  returned  to  its  author  for  revision  and 
correction. 

Maximum  prices.  Section  20.43.  As  a  basis  for  bids  for 
public  printing  by  state  printers  maximum  prices  for  work  and 
materials,  exclusive  of  paper,  are  fixed  as  follows: 

Composition  per  1,000  ems. 

Plain  .  $.40 

Figure  work  . 60 

Rule  and  figure  work  . 80 

Reimposing  necessitated  by  any  change  in  imposed  matter, 

per  1,000  ems  . 10  % 


Press  work  (Any  Color) 


Sheets  14x17  to  32x44,  inclusive. 

Printed  Matter: 

First  250  impressions  . 80 

Each  additional  250  impressions  to  1,000  . 40 

1,000  to  5,000,  per  1,000  impressions  .  2.00 

Each  1,000  impressions  above  5,000  up  to  10,000  .  1.20 

Each  1,000  impressions  above  10,000  up  to  20,000  . 80 

Each  1,000  impressions  above  20,000  up  to  40,000  . 75 

Each  1,000  impressions  above  40,000'  up  to  100,000  .  70 

Each  1,000  impressions  above  100,000  . 65 

Halftones  for  inserts,  16  pp.  or  less,  add  50  %  to  above  prices. 

Sheets  smaller  than  14x17. 

First  250'  impressions  . 64 

Each  additional  250  impressions  to  1,000  . . 32 

1,000  to  5,000,  per  1,000  impressions  .  1.60 

Each  1,000  impressions  above  5,000  up  to  10,000  .  1.00 

Each  1,000  impressions  above  10,000  up  to  20,000  . 80 

Each  1,000  impressions  above  20,000  . . . 60 

Transfer  inks,  add  50  %  to  above  prices. 


On  jobs  of  40,000  or  over,  if  the  job  can  be  set  up  and  printed 
more  than  once  on  a  sheet  10x15  inches,  the  printer  shall 
set  up  such  job  as  many  times  as  a  sheet  of  that  size  will 
permit,  not,  however,  exceeding  8  times,  and  charge  there¬ 
for  shall  be  for  actual  impressions  made. 


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Changing  Matter  Already  in  Type. 

Machine  composition,  per  hour  .  1.25 

Hand  composition,  per  hour . 75 

Folding. 

Per  100  sections  of  16  pages  . 06 

Stitching,  Trimming  and  Covering  Piiampiilets,  per  1,000 

Copies. 

Saddle  stitched  and  trimmed,  16  pp.  or  less . $1.65 

Each  additional  16  pp.  or  fraction  thereof . 40 

With  cover,  per  1,000,  additional  . 50 

Side  stitched  and  trimmed,  16  pp.  or  less .  1.65 

Each  additional  16  pp.  or  fraction  thereof . 40 

With  pasted  cover,  per  1,000,  additional  . 1.20 

Binding,  Machine  Thread  Sewed  Books,  Including  Stock  per 

Volume. 

In  pasteboard  16  mo.  or  12  mo .  $.15 

In  half  sheep,  16  mo.  or  12  mo . 20 

In  full  sheep,  16  mo.  or  12  mo . 40 

In  cloth,  16  mo.  or  12  mo . 20 

In  buckram,  16  mo.  or  12  mo . . 25 

In  half  calf,  16  mo.  or  12  mo . 65 

In  full  calf,  16  mo.  or  12  mo .  1.00 

In  half  German  morocco,  16  mo.  or  12  mo . 75 

In  full  German  morocco,  16  mo.  or  12  mo .  1.00 

In  half  American  morocco,  16  mo.  or  12  mo . 40 

Inserts,  pasted,  per  1,000 .  1.25 

Inserts,  not  pasted;  per  1,000  . 25 

Hand  sewing  per  1,000  sections,  extra .  2.00 

Binding  Blank  Books,  per  Quire,  Including  Ruling  and 
Stock  for  Binding. 

(A  quire  as  here  given  is  construed  to  mean  25  folded  sheets.) 

Each 

First  additional 

quire.  quire. 

Flat  cap,  half  binding,  sheep  back . $1.25  $.65 

Flat  cap,  full  sheep  .  1.50  .70 

Flat  cap,  Russia  ends  and  bands .  2.25  .75 

Folio,  half  binding,  sheep  back  .  1.70  .75 

Folio,  full  sheep  .  1.90  .85 

Folio,  Russia  ends  and  bands  .  2.50  1.00 


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Medium,  half  binding,  sheep  back  ....  1.75  .75 

Medium,  full  sheep  .  2 . 00  .85 

Medium,  Russia  ends  and  bands .  2.75  1.00 

Super  Royal,  half  binding,  sheep  back.  2.00  .85 

Super  Royal,  full  sheep  .  2.25  1.00 

Super  Royal,  Russia  ends  and  bands.  3.25  1.10 

Flat  open,  per  each  100  pages . 25 

Leather  alphabet  tab  index  .  1.25 

Paging,  extra  per  volume  . 40 

Indexing,  extra  per  quire  . j . 25 

Ruling. 

Ruling,  per  quire  of  25  sheets . 08 

Miscellaneous. 

Punching  one  or  two  holes,  per  1,000  sheets . .  .15 

Punching  loose  leaf  work,  per  1,000  sheets . 50 

Punching  cards,  per  1,000  . 40 

Numbering  single  numbers,  per  1,000  . 40 

Numbering  in  duplicate,  per  1,000  . 60 

Numbering  in  triplicate,  per  1,000  . 80 

Numbering  in  quadruplicate,  per  1,000  .  1.00 

Perforating,  per  1,000,  for  each  perforation. . . 30 

Eyeleting,  per  1,000  (including  punching)  .  2.50 

Binding  old  newspapers,  per  volume  .  2.50 

Binding  magazines  in  half  roan  or  cowhide,  per  volume, 

Sy^xll  or  smaller .  1.00 

Binding  magazines  in  German  morocco  or  half  calf,  per 

volume,  8%xll  or  smaller . 1.25 

Binding  magazines  and  periodicals  larger  than  Sy^xll  in 

half  roan  or  cowhide,  per  volume  . .  1.35 

Binding  magazines  and  periodicals  larger  than  8y2xll  in 

half  German  morocco,  per  volume  .  1.75 

Binding  patent  office  reports,  per  volume .  1.50 

Binding  books  (sewed) 

5x14  inches,  half  sheep,  cloth  sides . 40 

10x14  inches,  half  sheep,  cloth  sides . 60 

15x14  inches,  half  sheep,  cloth  sides . . 80 

20x14  inches,  half  sheep,  cloth  sides  .  1.00 

Embossing,  per  volume  . 08 

Check  binding  (number  and  perforating  extra) 

5x14  inches,  per  book  . 10 

10x14  inches,  per  book  . 15 

15x14  inches,  per  book  . 20 

20x14  inches,  per  book  . 25 

Blocking,  per  100  tabs  .  1.50 

Blocking  and  collecting  duplicate  and  triplicate,  per  100 
tabs .  2.50 


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Linotype  in  Readiness  foe  Printing,  per  Page. 


For  blue  book  and  session  laws  . 75 

For  Wisconsin  statutes  and  annotations  .  1.00 

Stereotype  Plates,  per  Page. 

Of  pages  measuring  approximately  71/ix4  inches . 50 

Of  pages  measuring  approximately  8%x5  inches . 65 


Reprinting  and  composition.  Section  20.44.  Section  20.43 
shall  be  interpreted  in  harmony  with  the  following  provisions: 

(1)  When  applied  to  the  presswork  of  books,  pamphlets, 
or  other  documents  having  sixteen  or  more  pages,  or  to  job 
work,  a  thousand  impressions  shall  mean  one  thousand  im¬ 
pressions  of  a  form  of  sixteen  pages  or  a  form  containing  all 
the  matter,  on  one  side  of  one  thousand  sheets  of  paper,  or  five 
hundred  impressions  of  such  form  on  both  sides  of  five  hundred 
sheets  of  paper.  When  applied  to  the  presswork  of  half  tones, 
run  separately  from  the  text,  a  thousand  impressions  shall 
mean  1,000  impressions  of  a  form  of  sixteen  pages  or  less  on 
one  side  of  one  thousand  sheets  of  paper.  No  single  job  of 
presswork  shall  be  charged  at  less  than  two  hundred  fifty  im¬ 
pressions.  When  a  job  exceeds  one  thousand  impressions,  addi¬ 
tional  fractional  parts  of  a  thousand  impressions  shall  be  charged' 
for  at  a  pro  rata  rate  figured  on  the  basis  of  the  lowest  rate 
per  thousand  taken  by  such  job. 

(2)  The  quantity  of  composition  shall  be  ascertained  by 
strict  measurement  and  count.  In  the  class  of  printing  usually 
known  as  job  work,  type  shall  be  measured  by  the  surface 
actually  covered  and  not  by  the  size  of  the  sheet  used,  and’  no 
blank  space  shall  be  charged  for.  Where  different  sizes  of  type 
are  used  each  size  shall  be  measured  separately  when  the  amount 
of  each  exceeds  one  thousand  ems. 

(3)  No  charge  for  composition  shall  be  allowed  for  second 
editions  nor  for  any  other  reprint  from  linotype  or  stereotype 
plates  owned  by  the  state.  Type  used  in  printing  any  opinion, 
decision,  bulletin,  pamphlet'  or  other  document,  shall  be  pre¬ 
served  undistributed  for  further  use  whenever  the  same  matter 
is  required  to  be  incorporated  in  any  other  book  or  document, 
if  the  same  size  and  shape  of  pages  and  the  same  style  of  type 
are  suitable  for  both ;  and  no  charge  for  composition  for  such 
further  use  of  the  type  shall  be  allowed.  One  charge  and  no 
more  shall  be  made  for  the  composition  of  any  printing  ordered 
by  both  houses  of  the  legislature.  No  charge  for  composition 
shall  be  allowed  for  extra  copies  of  any  printing  ordered  be¬ 
fore  the  type  shall  have  been  distributed.  No  distinct  work  of 
composition  shall  be  counted  at  less  than  one  thousand  ems. 


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Jobs  properly  requiring  changes  on  the  press  shall  not  be 
charged  for  as  separate  jobs,  but  charge  shall  be  made  for 
actual  time  required  for  making  such  changes,  provided,  how¬ 
ever,  that  such  time  charge  shall  in  no  case  exceed  the  cost  of 
any  of  such  jobs  if  measured  separately. 

(4)  Folding,  stitching  and  binding  include  collating,  dry¬ 
ing  and  pressing.  Not  to  exceed  two  rulings  across  and  up  and 
down  the  sheet  will  be  paid  for.  When  a  ruled  job  will  rule 
and  cut  two  or  more  to  the  sheet,  such  ruling  shall  be  charged 
for  on  the  basis  of  full  sheets  only,  and  cut  up  without  extra 
charge. 

Delivery  of  public  printing.  Section  20.52.  The  print¬ 
ing  specified  in  each  separate  order  'for  printing  shall  be 
separately  performed  and,  when  completed,  shall  be  delivered 
by  the  state  printer  as  follows:  Printing  for  the  University  of 
Wisconsin  and  for  the  normal  schools,  to  the  secretaries  of 
their  boards  of  regents,  respectively;  *  *  *  Every  person 
to  whom  any  public  printing  shall  be  delivered  as  aforesaid, 
shall  receipt  for  the  same  upon  the  back  of  the  duplicate  orders, 
if  the  quantity  thereof  is  founcf  upon  actual  count  to  correspond 
with  the  requirements  of  the  order,  and  one  of  said  receipted 
duplicates  shall  be  filed  with  the  printing  board. 

Definitions  of  *  ‘state  officers”  and  of  “public  li¬ 
braries”.  Section  20.83.  Every  direction  in  sections  20.84 
and  20.85  to  distribute  any  public  printing  to  state  officers  or 
to  each  state  officer  without  other  limitation,  means  those  hold¬ 
ing  at  the  time  .when  the  printing  regularly  should  issue,  and 
includes  the  governor,  lieutenant  governor,  each  justice  and  the 
clerk  of  the  supreme  court,  the  supreme  court  reporter,  each 
circuit  judge,  the  revisor;  every  member  of  the  legislature, 
every  officer  required  to  report  in  writing  to  the  governor  or  to 
the  legislature ;  every  chairman  or  president  of  a  state  board 
or  commission ;  the  secretary,  assistant  and  chief  clerk  of  every 
such  state  officer,  board  and  commission ;  and  the  chief  clerks 
fandv'fhe  sergeants  a*  arms'  pf  both  houses  of  the  legislature.  And 
every  such  direction  to  distribute  to  public  libraries  or  to  each 
public  library  without  other  limitation,  means  and  includes 
*  *  *  the  university  law  library,  *  *  *  the  libraries  of 

the  University  of  Wisconsin,  *  *  *. 

Distribution.  to  whom.  Section  20.84.  Immediately  after 
the  receipt  of  public  printing  by  the  superintendent  of  public 
property  he  shall  make  distribution  therefrom  as  follows:  (3) 
Of  the  legislative  journals  in  book  form,  *  *  *  not  ex¬ 
ceeding  ten  copies  each  to  *  *  #  the  university  library, 

the  university  law  library,  *  *  * 

(4)  Of  Wisconsin  session  laws,  *  *  *  to  *  #  * 

the  university  law  library,  ten  copies  *  *  *. 

(6)  (a)  Of  Wisconsin  statutes,  *  *  *  not  exceeding  ten 


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further  copies  *  *  *  to  *  *  *  the  university  law  li¬ 
brary  *  * 

(10)  (b)  Of  the  railroad  maps  of  Wisconsin,  upon  applica¬ 
tion  therefor,  *  *  *  ten  further  copies  *  *  *  to  the 

*  *  *  university  library.  *  #  All  copies  intended  for 

libraries,  #  *  *  other  than  *  *  *  the  university  library 

*  *  *  ,  shall  be  shipped  to  the  county  superintendents  and 

distributed  by  them  as  provided  in  paragraph  (a)  of  this  sub¬ 
section. 


School  of  Library  Science. 

(From  Chapter  23.) 

Free  library  commission,  how  constituted;  powers  and 
duties;  appropriation.  Section  373a.  4.  The  free  library  com¬ 
mission  is  hereby  empowered  to  conduct  a  school  of  library 
science  and  to  hold  librarians’  institutes  in  the  various  parts  of 
the  state  in  order  to  train  librarians  of  public  schools  and  travel¬ 
ing  libraries  to  make  wiser  and  more  effective  use  of  the  libraries 
in  their  charge.  The  commission  is  also  authorized  to  accept, 
arrange  and  circulate  books,  traveling  libraries  and  pictures  to 
be  loaned  to  public  libraries,  traveling  library  associations,  study 
clubs,  farming  communities,  charitable  and  penal-  institutions, 
and  individuals,  under  such  conditions  and  instructions  as  shall 
make  them  the  greatest  good  to  the  greatest  number.  Said 
commission  shall  bind  periodicals  for  traveling  libraries,  en¬ 
courage  the  growth  of  study  clubs  in  connection  with  them,  train 
librarians  to  be  better  educators,  aid,  more  efficiently  in  the 
proper  organization  of  new  libraries,  and  aid  in  building  up  a 
better  system  of  popular  education  for  people  who  have  finished 
their  education  in  the  schools. 

University,  library  science.  Section  373am.  1.  The  school 

of  library  science  created  by  section  373a  shall  hereafter  be 
known  as  the  school  of  library  science  of  the  university. 

Aid.  2.  The  regents  of  the  university  are  hereby  authorized 
to  co-operate  with  the  free  library  commission  in  the  mainte¬ 
nance  of  the  library  school  and  to  aid  the  school  by  appropria¬ 
tion  out  of  the  funds  of  the  university  such  sums  as  will  aid  in 
securing  specialized  teaching  and  equipment  for  said  school  and 
otherwise  to  aid  said  school  in  such  manner  as  will  conduce  to 
the  development  of  said1  school  and  of  library  science  in  the  state. 


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i , 


Government  of  the  University. 

(Chapter  25.) 

Location  and’  style  of.  Section  377.  There  is  established  in 
this  state  at  the  city  of  Miadison  an  institution  of  learning  by 
the  name  and  style  of  “The  University  of  Wisconsin.” 

University  board  of  regents;  members;  women  regents; 
appointment;  terms;  vacancy.  Section  378.  The  govern¬ 
ment  of  the  university  shall  be'  vested  in  a  board  of  regents,  to 
consist  of  one  member  from  each  congressional  district  and  two 
from  the  state  at  large,  at  least  two  of  whom  shall  be  women, 
to  be  appointed  by  the  governor;  the  state  superintendent  and 
the  president  of  the  university  shall  be  ex  officio  members  of 
said  board ;  said  president  shall  be  a  member  of  all  the  standing 
committees  of  the  board,  but  shall  have  the  right  to  vote  only 
in  case  of  a  tie.  The  terms  of  office  of  the  appointed  regents 
shall  be  six  years,  except  as  below  specified,  from  the  first  Mon¬ 
day  in  February  in  the  year  in  which  they  are  appointed  and 
until  the  appointment  and  qualification  of  their  respective  suc¬ 
cessors,  unless  sooner  removed  by  the  governor;  but  appoint¬ 
ments  to  fill  vacancies  before  the  expiration  of  the  term  shall 
be  for  the  residue  of  the  term  only.  Two  of  the  appointments 
of  the  five  regents  whose  terms  expire  in  1911  shall  be  for  a 
period  of  three  years,  two  for  a  period  of  four  years,  and  one  for 
a  period  of  five  years;  that  is,  to  the  years  1914,  1915  and  1916, 
respectively ;  one  of  the  appointments  of  the  three  regents  whose 
terms  expire  in  1912  shall  be  for  a  period  of  four  years  and  two 
for  a  period  of  five  years;  that  is,  to  the  years  1916  and  1917, 
respectively;  two  of  the  appointments  of  the  five  regents  whose 
terms  expire  in  1913  shall  be  for  a  period  of  five  years,  and  three 
for  a  period  of  six  years  ;  that  is,  to  the  years  1918  and  1919, 
respectively;  thereafter  as  the  various  terms  expire  all  appoint¬ 
ments- shall  be  for  a  period  of  six  years. 

Powers  of  board;  officers.  Section  379.  The  board  of  re¬ 
gents  and  their  successors  in  office  shall  constitute  a  body  cor¬ 
porate  by  the  name  of  “the  regents  of  the  University  of  Wis¬ 
consin,”  and  shall  possess  all  the  powers  necessary  or  conven¬ 
ient  to  accomplish  the  objects  and  perform  the  duties  prescribed 
by  law,  and  shall  have  the  custody  of  the  books,  records,  build¬ 
ing's  and  all  other  property  of  said  university.  The  board  shall 
elect  a  president  and  a  secretary,  who  shall  perform  such  duties 
as  may  be  prescribed  by  the  by-laws  of  the  board.,  The  secre¬ 
tary  shall  keep  a  faithful  record  of  all  the  transactions  of  the 
board  and  of  the  executive  committee  thereof.  It  shall  be  the 
dutv  of  the  state  treasurer  to  have  the  charge  of  all  securities 
for  loans  and  all  moneys  belonging  to  the  university  or  in  any 


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wise  appropriated  by  law  to  its  endowment  or  support;  to  col¬ 
lect  the  interest  on  all  securities  held  by  him ;  to  pay  out  moneys 
only  upon  the  warrant  of  the  secretary  of  state  as  provided  by 
law;  to  keep  the  same  and  the  accounts  thereof  separate  and 
distinct  from  other  public  funds,  and  particularly  distinguish 
the  accounts  of  every  fund,  according  to  the  nature  thereof, 
coming  to  his  charge,  whether  created  by  law  or  by  private 
bounty;  andf  to  discharge  these  and  other  appropriate  functions 
relating  thereto  subject  to  such  regulations  as  the  board  may 
adopt  not  inconsistent  with  his  official  duties;  and  he  and  his 
sureties  shall  be  liable  on  his  official  bond  as  state  treasurer  for 
the  faithful  discharge  of  such  duties. 

Meetings;  quorum.  Section  380.  The  time  for  the  election 
of  the  president  and  secretary  of  said  board  and  the  duration 
of  their  respective  terms  of  office,  and  the  times  for  holding  the 
regular  annual  meeting  and  such  other  meetings  as  may  be 
required,  and  the  manner  of  notifying  the  same,  shall  be  de¬ 
termined  by  the  by-laws  of  the  board.  A  majority  of  the  board 
shall  constitute  a  quorum  for  the  transaction  of  business,  but 
a  less  number  may  adjourn  from  time  to  time. 

Regents  '  meetings  open.  Section  380a.  The  meetings  of  the 
board  of  regents  of  the  university  shall  be  open  to  the  public 
and  the  press  and  all  records  of  such  meetings  and  of  all  pro¬ 
ceedings  of  such  board  shall  be  open  to  inspection  by  the  pub¬ 
lic  and  the  press  at  any  reasonable  hours  thereafter;  provided, 
that  said  board  may  hold  executive  sessions,  the  findings  of  said 
executive  sessions  to  be  made  a  part  of  the  records  of  the  pro¬ 
ceedings  of  said  board. 

Duties  of  regents;  additional  powers.  Section  381.  The 
board  of  regents  shall  enact  laws  for  the  government  of  the 
university  in  all  its  branches;  elect  a  president  and  the  requi¬ 
site  number  of  professors,  instructors,  officers  and  employes, 
and  fix  the  salaries  and  the  term  of  office  of  each,  and  determine 
the  moral  and  educational  qualifications  of  applicants  for  ad¬ 
mission  to  the  various  courses  of  instruction ;  but  no  instruction, 
either  sectarian  in  religion  or  partisan  in  politics,  shall  ever  be 
allowed  in  any  department  of  the  university;  and  no  sectarian  or 
partisan  tests  shall  ever  be  allowed  or  exercised  in  the  appoint¬ 
ment  of  regents  or  in  the  election  of  professors,  teachers  or  other 
officers  of  the  university,  or  in  the  admission  of  students  thereto 
or  for  any  purpose  whatever.  The  board  of  regents  shall  have 
power  to  remove  the  president  or  any  professor,  instructor  or 
officer  of  the  university  when,  in  their  judgment,  the  interests 
of  the  university  require  it.  The  board1  may  prescribe  rules 
and  regulations  for  the  management  of  the  libraries,  cabinet, 
museum,  laboratories  and  all  othfer  property  of  the  university 
and  of  its  several  departments,  and  for  the  care  and  preserva¬ 
tion  thereof,  with  penalties  and  forfeitures  by  way  of  damages 


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for  their  violation,  which  may  be  sued  for  and  collected  in  the 
name  of  the  board  before  any  court  having  jurisdiction  of  such 
action.  In  the  use  of  men’s  and  women’s  dormitories  at  the 
university,  preference  as  to  rooming  and  boarding  facilities 
shall  be  given  to  students  who  are  legal  residents  of  this  state ; 
but  in  case  additional  facilities  remain  after  such  preference, 
the  above  mentioned  rooming  and  boarding  facilities  may  be 
extended  to  nonresident  students.  The  regents  shall  make 
suitable  rules  and  regulations  for  carrying  such  dormitory  pref¬ 
erences  into  effect.  All  salaries  and  compensations  provided  for 
in  this  section  shall  be  charged  against  the  proper  appropriation 
for  the  board  of  regents  of  the  university. 

Salaries  of  janitors.  Section  381m.  The  board  of  regents 
are  empowered  and  directed  to  fix  and  establish  the  salaries  of 
the  janitors  at  the  university  so  that  the  same  shall  be  equiva¬ 
lent  and  equal  to  the  salaries  paid  to  janitors  at  the  state  capitol. 

Use  of  income;  addition  of  other  colleges.  Section  382. 
For  the  erection  of  suitable  buildings  and  the  purchase  of  ap¬ 
paratus,  a  library,  cabinets  and  additions  thereto,  the  board  of 
regents  are  authorized  to  expend  such  portion  of  the  income  of 
the  university  fund  as  is  appropriated  by  the  legislature  for  such 
purposes;  and  if  they  deem  it  expedient  may  receive 
in  connection  with  the  university  any  college  in  this  state  upon 
application  of  its  board  of  trustees ;  and  such  college  so  received 
shall  become  a  branch  of  the  university  and  be  subject  to  the 
visitation  of  the  regents. 

Method  of  expending  appropriations.  Section  382a.  AH 
appropriations  made  by  law  to  the  board  of  regents  of  the 
university  for  the  construction  of  new  buildings,  shall  be  ex¬ 
pended  in  accordance  with  the  following  conditions: 

(1)  Construction  shall,  unless  otherwise  directed  by  law,  be 
in  order  of  the  greatest  need  therefor  as  determined  by  the 
regents. 

(2)  No  plan  or  plans  shall  be  finally  adopted,  and  no  contract 
or  contracts  shall  be  entered  into  by  the  regents  for  the  con¬ 
struction  of  any  building  until  such  plans  and  contracts,  with 
complete  estimates  of  the  total  cost  thereof,  shall  have  been 
submitted  to,  $nd  in  writing  approved  by  the  governor,  who 
shall  withhold  such  approval  until  he  shall  satisfy  himself  by 
a  personal  examination  or  by  such  other  means  as  he  may  in  his 
discretion  adopt,  that  such  building  is  required  for  the  pur¬ 
pose  proposed,  and  that  it  can  and  will  be  erected  and  fully 
completed  according  to  such  plans  or  contracts  for  the  sum 
proposed  for  the  same  by  the  regents  of  the  appropriation  made 
for  such  purposes. 

Reports,  and  printing  thereof.  Section  383.  At  the  close 
of  each  biennial  fiscal  term  the  regents  through  their  presi¬ 
dent  shall  make  a  report  in  detail  to  the  governor  and  the 
legislature  exhibiting  the  progress,  condition-  and  wants  of 


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each  of  the  colleges  embraced  in  the  university,  the  course  of 
study  in  each,  the  number  of  instructors  and  students,  the 
amount  of  receipts  and  disbursements,  together  with  the  na¬ 
ture,  cost  and  results  of  all  important  investigations  and  exper¬ 
iments  and  such  other  information  as  they  may  deem  impor¬ 
tant,  one  copy  of  which  shall  be  transmitted  free  by  the  sec¬ 
retary  of  state  to  all  colleges  endowed  under  the  provisions 
of  the  act  of  congress  entitled,  “An  act  donating  land  to  the 
several  states  and  territories  which  provide  colleges  for  the 
benefit  of  agriculture  and  the  mechanic  arts,”  approved  July 
2,  1862,  and  also  one  copy  to  the  secretary  of  the  interior  as 
provided  in  said  act.  -The  board  shall  also  report  to  the  gov¬ 
ernor  as  often  as  may  seem  desirable  the  important  results  of 
investigations  conducted  by  the  director  of  the  Washburn  ob¬ 
servatory  and  by  other  investigators  connected  with  the  uni¬ 
versity,  and  also  the  results  of  such  experiments  therein  re¬ 
lating  to  agriculture  or  the  mechanic  arts  as  said  board  may 
deem  to  be  of  special  value  to  the  agricultural  and  mechanical 
interests  of  the  state.  With  the  approval  of  the  governor  such 
number  of  copies  as  he  shall  direct,  and  of  the  Washburn  ob¬ 
servatory  reports  not  more  than  seven  hundred  copies,  may  be 
printed  by  the  state  printer  in  separate  form  on  good  paper 
and  with  such  appropriate  quality  of  binding  as  the  commis¬ 
sioners  of  public  printing  shall  order.  Eight  hundred  copies 
of  each  of  said  reports,  when  so  directed  by  the  governor,  ex¬ 
cept  those  of  the  Washburn  observatory,  shall  be  delivered  to 
the  legislature  and  the  remainder  be  used  in  exchange  for  the 
publications  of  other  institutions  and  for  such  other  public 
purposes  as  the  regents. may  order. 

Receipts  and  disbursements;  accounts;  secretary's  bond. 
Section  383a.  All  moneys  which  shall  be  derived  to  the  uni¬ 
versity  from  gifts  or  other  bounties,  from  fees  of  students  in 
any  form  less  any  rebates  allowed  under  authority  of  the 
board,  from  sales  of  farm  products  or  any  articles  of  personal 
property  of  whatever  kind,  from  publications  or  advertise¬ 
ments  in  publications  of  the  university,  from  fees  for  services 
rendered  in  any  manner,  from  sales  or  rents  of  real  property, 
or  from  any  source  whatever  other  than  in  cases  by  law  re¬ 
quired  to  be  paid  to  the  state  treasurer,  may  be  paid  to  the 
secretary  of  the  board  in  all  cases  where  the  board  shall  au¬ 
thorize  him  to  receive  the  same ;  and  such  secretary  shall  at 
least  as  often  as  once  a  week  pay  into  the  state  treasury  the 
entire  .amount  of  such  receipts  by  him,  and  shall  on  or  before 
the  tenth  day  of  each  calendar  month  deliver  to  the  state 
treasurer  an  itemized  account  of  such  receipts  during  the  pre¬ 
ceding  calendar  month,  showing  the  amount  of  each  sum  so 
received  by  him,  the  date  thereof,  the  persons  from  whom  re¬ 
ceived,  for  what  received,  and  the  particular  fund  or  account 
to  which  the  same  belongs  ;  save  that  the  details  of  small  re- 


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ceipts  may  be  omitted  and  the  account  made  summary  in  such 
cases  and  to  such  extent  as  the  secretary  of  state  shall  pre¬ 
scribe  by  forms  therefor ;  and  shall  verify  the  correctness 
thereof  by  his.  affidavit  thereto  appended;  and  a  duplicate 
thereof  he  shall  at  the  same  time  file  with  the  secretary  of 
state.  Such  account  shall  be  made  upon  forms  to  be  prepared 
and  furnished  by  the  secretary  of  state.  The  regents  may  require 
of  their  secretary  such  bond,  in  such  sum  and  with  such  sureties 
as  they  shall  think  fit  and  its  renewal  when  deemed  desirable ;  and 
may  prescribe  regulations  for  the  discharge  of  all  such  duties  not 
inconsistent  with  law.  The  secretary  of  state  shall  audit  and  give 
his  warrant  on  the  state  treasurer  for  all  accounts  certified  to 
him  by  the  board  or  its  executive  committee,  in  the  manner  here¬ 
in  provided.  All  salaries  for  instructional  or  administrative  ser¬ 
vice,  and  also  allowances  to  fellows  and  scholars,  which  have  been 
fixed  by  the  board,  shall  be  certified  at  periodical  intervals  accord¬ 
ing  to  the  laws  of  the  board  upon  rolls  showing  the  name  of  the 
person  and  title  to  receive  the  same,  the  amount  of  his  fixed 
annual  salary  or  allowance  and  that  the  sum  so  certified  is 
then  due  him  according  to  the  method  of  periodical  payment 
established  by  the  board ;  upon  which  certified  roll  the  secre¬ 
tary  of  state  shall  issue  his  warrant  to  each  person  therein 
named  for  the  amount  so  certified  to  be  due  to  him.  Pay¬ 
ments  to  janitors,  laborers  and  all  other  employes  and  also 
to  all  persons  from  whom  milk  and  products  for  the  dairy  are 
purchased  shall  be  made  upon  rolls  showing  the  name  of  the 
party  entitled,  for  what  service  or  object,  to  what  fund 
chargeable,  and  the  amounts  respectively  due  each ;  which  shall 
be  likewise  certified  to  the  secretary  of  state  to  be  correct  and 
due  and  he  shall  issue  thereon  his  warrant  for  the  amount  due 
each  person  upon  such  roll  to  each  such  person.  Every  other 
claim  or  account  shall  state  the  nature  and  particulars  of  the 
service  rendered  or  material  furnished  and  be  verified  by  the 
affidavit  of  the  claimant  or  his  agent  and  filed  with  the  secre¬ 
tary  of  the  regents,  and  a  roll,  showing  the  name  of  each  such 
person,  for  what  service  or  object,  to  what  fund  chargeable, 
and  the  amount  allowed  to  and  due  him,  shall  be  certified  as 
aforesaid  to  the  secretary  of  state ;  upon  which  he  shall  issue 
his  warrant  for  the  proper  amount  to  the  person  entitled 
thereto.  The  board  may  enact  laws  to  govern  all  such  busi¬ 
ness  not  inconsistent  with  law;  and  all  forms  shall  be  pre¬ 
pared  and  furnished  by  the  secretary  of  state.  All  warrants 
issued  pursuant  to  this  section  shall  be  labeled  “University 
Warrant”  and  numbered  in  consecutive  order.  All  gifts,  boun¬ 
ties  and  moneys  paid  in  and  appropriations  made  by  law  for 
the  university,  its  endowment,  aid  or  support,  when  received 
by  the  state  treasurer  shall  be  at  once  credited  to  the  proper 
fund,  and  if  received  as  part  of  the  general  fund  shall  be  forth¬ 
with  transferred  by  warrant  to  the  proper  university  account, 


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and  shall  all  thenceforth  be  held  solely  for  the  respective  uses 
to  which  the  same  is  by  law  appropriated,  and  shall  never  be 
employed,  diverted  to,  or  paid  out  for  any  other  use  or  purpose. 

University  accounts  ;  biennial  examination.  Section  383m. 
1.  The  board  of  regents  of  the  state  university  shall  cause  all 
of  the  financial  transactions  and  accounts  of  or  relating  to  the 
state  university  in  any  of  its  departments  at  the  close  of  each 
biennial  period  to  be  fully  and  thoroughly  examined  by  an 
audit  company  of  recognized  business  standing  and  reliability 
and  approved  of  by  the  governor  and  in  no  way  connected 
with  the  university  or  with  any  of  its  activities. 

When  made.  2.  Such  examination  shall  be  commenced  im¬ 
mediately  after  the  close  of  said  period  and  be  completed  as 
soon  as  practicable. 

Report.  3.  Upon  the  completion  of  such  examination  a  full 
and  detailed  report  thereof  shall  be  made  by  such  audit  com¬ 
pany  to  the  governor,  and  a  printed  copy  of  such  report  shall 
be  furnished  to  each  member  of  the  next  legislature  not  later 
than  thirty  days  prior  to  the  beginning  of  the  next  regular 
session.  The  expense  of  such  audit  shall  be  charged  against 
the  proper  appropriation  for  the  board  of  regents  of  the  uni¬ 
versity. 

The  president.  Section  384.  The  president  of  the  uni¬ 
versity  shall  be  president  of  the  several  faculties  and  the  ex¬ 
ecutive  head  of  the  instructional  force  in  all  its  departments; 
as  such  he  shall  have  authority,  subject  to  the  board  of  regents, 
to  give  general  direction  to  the  instruction  and  scientific  in¬ 
vestigations  of  the  several  colleges,  and  so  long  as  the  interests 
of  the  institution  require  it  he  shall  be  charged  with  the  duties 
of  one  of  the  professorships.  The  immediate  government  of 
the  several  colleges  shall  be  intrusted  to  their  respective  fac¬ 
ulties  ;  but  the  regents  shall  have  the  power  to  regulate  the 
courses  of  instruction  and  prescribe  the  books  or  works  to  be 
used  in  the  several  courses,  and  also  to  confer  such  degrees  and 
grant  such  diplomas  as  are  usual  in  universities  or  as  they  shall 
deem  appropriate,  and  to  confer  upon  the  faculty  by  by-laws 
the  power  to  suspend  or  expel  students  for  misconduct  or  other 
cause  prescribed  in  such  by-laws. 

Object  and  departments.  Section  385.  The  object  of  the 
university  of  Wisconsin  shall  be  to  provide  the  means  of  ac¬ 
quiring  a  thorough  knowledge  of  the  various  branches  of  learn¬ 
ing  connected  with  literary,  scientific,  industrial  and  profes¬ 
sional  pursuits,  and  to  this  end  it  shall  consist  of  the  following 
colleges  or  departments,  to  wit : 

(1)  The  college  of  letters  ;and  science. 

(2)  The  college  of  mechanics  and  engineering. 

(3)  The  college  of  agriculture. 

(4)  The  law  school. 

(5)  The  medical  school. 


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(6)  Such  other  colleges,  schools  or  departments  as  are  now 
or  may  from  time  to  time  be  added  thereto  or  connected  there¬ 
with. 

Departments,  what  embraced  in.  Section  386.  The  col¬ 
lege  of  letters  and  science  shall  embrace  liberal  courses  of 
instruction  in  language,  literature,  philosophy  and  science, 
and  may  embrace  such  other  branches,  as  the  regents  of  the 
university  shall  prescribe.  The  college  of  mechanics  and  en¬ 
gineering  shall  embrace  practical  and  theoretical  instruction 
in  the  various  branches  of  mechanical  and  engineering  science 
and  art,  and  may  embrace  such  additional  branches  as  the 
regents  may  determine.  The  college  of  agriculture  shall  em¬ 
brace  instruction  and  experimentation  in  the  science  of  agri¬ 
culture  and  in  those  sciences  which  are  tributary  thereto,  and 
may  embrace  such  additional  branches  as  the  board  of  regents 
shall  determine.  The  college  of  law  shall  consist  of  courses  of 
instruction  in  the  principles  and  practices,  of  law,  and  may  in¬ 
clude  such  other  branches  as  the  regents  may  determine. 

Open  to  both  SEXES;  military  instruction;  diplomas  may 
be  countersigned.  Section  387.  All  schools  and  colleges  of 
the  university  shall,  in  their  respective  departments  and  class 
exercises,  be  open  without  distinction  to  students  of  both  sexes; 
and  all  able-bodied  male  students  in  whatever  colleges  therein 
may  receive  instruction  and  discipline  in  military  tactics,  the 
requisite  arms  for  which  shall,  be  furnished  by  the  state.  Any 
person  who  has  graduated  from  a  regular  collegiate  course  at 
the  university,  and  after  such  graduation  shall  furnish  evi¬ 
dence  to  the  state  superintendent  of  good  moral  character  and 
of  successful  teaching  for  one  school  year  in  a  public  school  of 
this  state,  may  have  his  diploma  countersigned  by  said  super¬ 
intendent,  which  shall  then  have  the  force  and  effect  of  an 
unlimited  state  certificate,  subject  to  the  exercise  of  the  power 
vested  in  the  state  superintendent  to  revoke  the  right  given  by 
his  signature  to  such  diploma. 

Tuition.  Section  388.  No  student  who  shall  have  been  a 
resident  of  the  state  for  one  year  next  preceding  his  admission 
at  the  beginning  of  any  academic  year,  shall  be  required  to 
pay  any  fees  for  tuition  in  the  university,  except  for  extra 
studies;  the  regents  shall  charge  tuition  at  the  rate  of  one 
hundred  dollars  per  school  year  for  any  pupil  who  shall  not 
have  been  a  resident  as  aforesaid  and  may  prescribe  rates  of 
tuition  for  teaching  extra  studies.  This  charge  for  tuition  to 
be  made  on  and  after  September  1,  1914,  but  the  rate  of  tuition 
for  the  school  year  1913-1914  shall  be  the  rate  charged  imme¬ 
diately  prior  to  the  passage  and  publication  of  this  act.  At¬ 
tendance  at  the  university  shall  not  of  itself  be  sufficient  to 
effect  a  residence. 


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Funds  for  support  of  gifts,  bequests,  etc.  Section  389. 
Moneys  from  the  following  sources  shall  be  used  for  the  sup¬ 
port  and  endowment  of  the  university: 

(1)  The  university  fund  income  and  all  other  sums  of 
money  appropriated  by  law  to  such  fund. 

(2)  The  agricultural  college  fund  income. 

(3)  All  such  contributions  as  may  be  derived  from  public 
or  private  bounty. 

The  income  of  all  said  funds  shall,  so  far  as  appropriated  by 
the  legislature,  be  placed  at  the  disposal  of  the  board  of  re¬ 
gents,  thenceforth  to  be  independent  and  distinct  of  the  ac¬ 
counts  of  the  state  and  for  the  support  of  the  aforesaid  col¬ 
leges  or  departments  of  arts,  of  letters  and  such  other  colleges 
and  departments  as  shall  be  established  in  or  connected  with 
the  university;  but  all  means  derived  from  other  public  or 
private  bounty  shall  be  exclusively  devoted  to  the  specific 
objects  for  which  they  shall  have  been  designed  by  the 
grantor;  and  all  gifts,  grants,  bequests  and  devises  for  the 
benefit  or  advantage  of  the  university  or  any  of  its  depart¬ 
ments,  colleges,  schools,  halls,  observatories  or  institutions,  or 
to  provide  any  means  of  instruction,  illustration  or  knowledge 
in  connection  therewith,  whether  made  to  trustees  or  other¬ 
wise,  shall  be  legal  and  valid  and  shall  be  executed  and  en¬ 
forced  according  to  the  provisions  of  the  instrument  making  the 
same,  including  all  provisions  and  directions  in  any  such  in¬ 
strument  for  accumulation  of  the  income  of  any  fund  or  rents 
and  profits  of  any  real  estate  without  being  subject  to  the  limi¬ 
tations  and  restrictions  provided  by  law  in  other  cases ;  but  no 
such  accumulation  shall  be  allowed  to  produce  a  fund  more 
than  twenty  times  as  great  as  that  originally  given.  All  such 
gifts,  grants,  devises  or  bequests  may  be  made  to  the  regents  of 
the  university  or  to  the  president  or  any  officer  thereof,  or  to 
any  person  or  persons  as  trustees,  or  may  be  charged  upon  anjr 
executor,  trustee,  heir,  devisee  or  legatee,  or  made  in  any  other 
manner  indicating  an  intention  to  create  a  trust,  and  may  be 
made  as  well  for  the  benefit  of  the  university  or  any  of  its 
chairs,  faculty,  departments,  colleges,  schools,  halls,  observa¬ 
tories  or  institutions  or  to  provide  any  means  of  instruction, 
illustration  or  knowledge  in  connection  therewith,  or  for  the 
benefit  of  any  class  of  students  at  the  university  or  in  any  of 
its  departments,  whether  by  way  of  scholarship,  fellowship  or 
otherwise,  or  whether  for  the  benefit  of  students  in  any  course, 
subcourse,  special  course,  postgraduate  course,  summer  school 
or  teachers’  course,  oratorical  or  debating  course,  laboratory, 
shop,  lectureship,  drill,  gymnasium,  or  any  other  like  division 
or  department  of  study,  experiment,  research,  observation, 
travel  or  mental  or  physical  improvement  in  any  manner  con¬ 
nected  with  the  university,  or  to  provide  for  the  voluntary  re¬ 
tirement  of  any  of  its  faculty.  And  it  shall  not  be  necessary 


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in  case  of  any  such  gift,  grant,  devise  or  bequest  to  exactly  or 
particularly  describe  the  members  of  the  class,  group  or  na¬ 
tionality  of  students  intended  to  be  the  beneficiaries,  but  it 
shall  be  sufficient  to  describe  the  class  or  group ;  and  in  case  of 
any  such  gift,  grant,  devise  or  bequest  the  regents  shall  divide 
and  graduate  the  students  at  the  university  into  such  classes 
or  divisions  as  may  be  necessary  to  select  and  determine  those 
belonging  to  the  class  intended  by  such  gift,  grant,  devise  or 
bequest,  and  shall  determine  what  particular  persons  are  with¬ 
in  or  intended  by  the  same.  It  shall  be  sufficient  in  any  such 
gift,  grant,  devise  or  bequest  to  describe  the  beneficiaries  as 
belonging  to  a  certain  course,  subcourse,  department  or  divi¬ 
sion  of  the  university,  or  as  those  pursuing  certain  studies, 
speaking  or  writing  a  certain  language  or  languages,  belong¬ 
ing  to  any  nationality  or  nationalities,  or  to  one  of  the  sexes 
or  by  any  other  description,  and  in  such  case  the  regents  shall 
determine  the  persons  so  described  as  hereinbefore  provided. 

Mill-tax  appropriation  ;  loans  ;  school  of  education.  Sec¬ 
tion  390.  1.  There  shall  be  levied  and  collected  annually  a  state 
tax  of  three-eights  of  one  mill  for  each  dollar  of  the  assessed 
valuation  of  the  taxable  general  property  of  the  state  as  as¬ 
certained  and  fixed  by  the  state  board  of  assessment  for  ap¬ 
portionment  of  the  state  tax  to  the  several  counties,  which 
amount,  when  so  levied  and  collected,  shall  be  added, 
to  the  university  fund  income  to  be  used  as  specifically  ap¬ 
propriated  by  the  legislature  for  current  and  administration 
expenditures  and  for  the  increase  and  improvement  of  the 
facilities  of  the  university ;  provided  that  upon  any  apportion¬ 
ment  of  the  funds  in  the  treasury  under  section  1069a  of  the 
statutes,  such  fund  shall  be  applied  to  the  tax  hereinbefore 
levied.  The  commissioners  of  public  lands  may  direct  the 
state  treasurer,  from  time  to  time,  to  set  apart  such  sums  by 
way  of  loan  to  the  fund  known  as  the  university  fund  income 
for  the  university  uses  from  uninvested  moneys  in  the  trust 
fund  for  the  period  when  so  uninvested,  as  in  their  judgment 
shall  be  prudent,  such  loans  to  be  repaid  to  the  trust  fund  from 
the  tax  hereinbefore  appropriated  with  interest  at  the  rate 
then  required  to  school  districts. 

2.  The  regents  of  the  university  are  authorized  to  construct 
and  maintain  a  school  for  demonstration  and  practice,  in  order 
to  complete  the  organization  of  a  school  of  education. 

Summer  school.  Section  392a.  The  board  of  regents  may 
•maintain  the  summer  school  of  science,  literature,  language 
and  pedagogy  heretofore  established  in  connection  with  the 
university;  provided,  that  all  teachers  employed  therein  shall 
be  designated  by  the  state  superintendent  and  the  president  of 
the  university. 

Agricultural  extension  work.  Section  392e.  The  regents 
of  the  university  are  authorized  to  have  done  experimental 


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work  in  agriculture  at  such  points  within  the  state  as  may  in 
their  judgments  be  advisable. 

See  Section  (172—53)  3  &  4. 

Agricultural  demonstration  stations.  Section  392em — 8. 
For  the  purpose  of  aiding  in  the  agricultural  development  of 
the  respective  counties  of  the  state,  the  agricultural  college  of 
the  University  of  Wisconsin  is  authorized  to  establish  three 
demonstration  stations,  on  which  trials  and  demonstrations 
shall  be  conducted  to  show  the  methods  of  agricultural  prac¬ 
tice  best  adapted  to  the  development  of  these  respective  locali¬ 
ties.  These  stations  are  to  be  established  under  the  following 
conditions ;  provided,  however,  that  not  more  than  one  such 
station  shall  be  located  in  any  county: 

(1)  The  location  of  the  station  shall  be  determined  by  the 
board  of  regents  of  the  University  of  Wisconsin,  who,  in  mak¬ 
ing  such  selection,  shall  take  into  consideration  the  relative 
opportunities  for  agricultural  development  in  the  respective 
regions. 

(2)  The  location  of  such  stations  shall  be  contingent  upon 
the  county  leasing  to  the  regents  of  the  university,  a  suitable 
tract  of  cleared  land,  free  of  cost,  for  such  period  as  may  be 
mutually  agreed  upon,  and  appropriating  for  the  partial  main¬ 
tenance  of  such  demonstration  station  a  sum  not  less  than  five 
hundred  dollars,  which  sum  shall  be  paid  annually  for  period 
of  lease  to  the  secretary  of  the  board  of  regents  of  the  univer¬ 
sity. 

See  Section  (172—53)  30. 

Soils  laboratory.  Section  392em— 8a.  1.  The  regents  of 

the  state  university  shall  establish  a  state  soils  laboratory  in  con¬ 
nection  with  the  college  of  agriculture. 

2.  -So  far  as  possible  the  state  soils  laboratory  shall  make  use 
of  the  rooms,  apparatus  and  supplies  of  the  department  of  soils 
of  the  college  of  agriculture  and  of  the  services  of  the  instruc¬ 
tional,  laboratory  and  field  staff  of  the  department.  When 
necessary  to  the  proper  carrying  out  of  the  provisions  of  this 
section,  to  secure  the  use  of  accommodations,  apparatus  and 
supplies  other  than  those  available  in  the  department  of  soils 
or  to  secure  the  services  of  university  or  other  state  eranloyees 
not  employed  in  the  department  of  soils,  the  regents  shall  c^use 
to  be  made  such  arrangements  as  may  be  necessary  to  provide 
the  accommodations,  apparatus,  supplies  or  services  required. 

3.  Tt,  shall  be  the  purpose  and  the  duty  of  the  state  soils  lab¬ 
oratory  to  make  field  examinations  and  laboratory  analyses  of 
the  soil  of  any  land  in  this  state  and  to  certify  to  the  results  of 
such  examinations  and  analyses  upon  the  request  of  the  owner 
or  the  occupant  of  the  land  and  the  payment  by  him  of  the  fee 
or  fees  hereinafter  prescribed. 


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4.  For  services  rendered  under  this  section  the  state  soils 
laboratory  shall  charge  the  person  requesting  such  services  a 
fee  which  shall  be  calculated  as  follows: 

(1)  For  the  held  examination  and  the  chemical  analysis  of 
the  soil  of  any  tract  of  land  not  exceeding  one  hundred  sixty 
acres  in  area,  when  requested  by  one  person,  five  dollars. 

(2)  When  the  tract  of  land  exceeds  one  hundred  and  sixty  acres, 
for  each  additional  one  hundred  and  sixty  acres  or  part  thereof, 
or  for  each  additional  field  examination  or  for  each  additional 
field  examination  and  chemical  analysis  of  the  soil,  when  re¬ 
quested  by  one  person;  three  dollars. 

(3)  Whenever  five  or  more  residents  in  any  organized  town 
shall  request  such  field  examination  or  chemical  analysis,  or 
both,  of  land  owned  by  such  persons  in  such  town,  the  charge 
to  each  such  person,  for  the  service  stated  in  subdivision  (1)  of 
this  subsection,  shall  be  three  dollars  and  for  the  service  stated 
in  subdivision  (2)  of  this  subsection  shall  be  two  dollars;  and 
the  soils  laboratory  shall,  upon  the  request  of  such  persons  for 
whom  such  examinations  and  analyses  are  made,  and  without 
additional  charge,  send  a  representative  to  such  community,  who 
shall  give  a  full  and  complete  explanation  of  such  examination 
and  analysis,  the  purposes  for  which  such  soils  may  be  used  and 
the  manner  in  which  such  lands  may  be  improved. 

5.  The  state  soils  laboratory  shall  make  an  annual  report  of 
its  work  to  the  dean  of  the  college  of  agriculture,  and  the  dean 
of  the  college  of  agriculture  shall  include  these  reports  verbatim 
or  in  summarized  form  in  his  biennial  report  to  the  regents  of 
the  university  in  such  manner  as  to  show: 

(1)  The  number  of  requests  made  for  the  services  of  the 
laboratory ; 

(2)  The  number  of  requests  complied  with; 

(3)  The  fees  received  by  the  laboratory; 

(4)  The  expense  of  conducting  the  laboratory:  and 

(5)  Such  other  facts  as  may  be  necessary  in  judging  of  the 
value  of  the  work  done  bv  the  laboratory. 

See  Section  (172—53)  25  &  26. 

Hog  cholera  serum.  Section  392em — 10.  1.  The  regents 

of  the  University  of  Wisconsin  shall  cause  to  be  prepared  by  the 
agricultural  college  and  the  department  of  veterinary  science 
thereof,  serums  or  vaccines  which  will  produce  immunity  in  hogs 
against  the  disease  know  as  cholera,  and  for  such  purposes  shall 
cause  the  agricultural  college  to  obtain  such  additional  assist¬ 
ance  and  install  such  additional  equipment,  materials,  appli¬ 
ances  and  apparatus  as  may  be  necessary. 

2.  The  regents  shall,  through  the  agricultural  college,  fur¬ 
nish  to  any  bona  fide  resident  of  this  state,  who  is  engaged  in  the 
raising  of  hogs,  and  who  makes  request  therefor,  such  serums 
and  vaccines  as  may  be  necessary  to  immunize  his  hogs  against 


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cholera,  and  shall  charge  and  collect  therefor  at  the  rate  of  one 
cent  per  cubic  centimeter;  provided  that  no  serums  or  vaccines 
shall  be  furnished  to  any  person  at  such  price  unless  such  per¬ 
son  shall  have  first  produced  sufficient  evidence  that  the  disease 
known  as  hog  cholera  exists  among  the  hogs  belonging  to  such 
person,  or  among  the  hogs  in  his  immediate  neighborhood,  and, 
in  the  latter  case,  evidence  shall  be  furnished  to  show  that  there 
is  danger  of  the  disease  being  communicated  to  the  hogs  of  such 
person.  Such  serums  or  vaccines  may  also,  upon  request,  be 
furnished  to  any  bona  fide  resident  of  this  state  who  is  engaged 
in  the  raising  of  hogs,  and  for  the  use  of  such  person,  when  the 
conditions  above  mentioned  do  not  exist,  but  the  price  therefor 
shall  be  the  actual  cost  of  the  production  of  such  serums  or 
vaccines.  Moneys  received  under  this  section  shall  be  used  to 
carry  out  the  provisions  of  this  section. 

3.  It  is  further  provided  that  hog  cholera  virus  (disease- 
producing  blood)  which  is  used  in  certain  methods  of  vaccination 
shall  not  be  administered  by  any  person  or  persons  except  a 
legally  qualified  veterinarian  and  not  by  him  or  them  without 
the  consent  of  the  state  veterinarian. 

4.  Any  person  who  shall  sell,  give  away,  maliciously  waste 
or  otherwise  misuse  or  misapply  any  serums  or  vaccines  fur¬ 
nished  to  him  under  the  provisions  of  this  section,  and  any 
person  who  shall  wilfully  misrepresent  himself  or  who  shall 
in  any  wise  misrepresent  or  falsify  for  the  purpose  of  obtaining 
any  serums  or  vaccines  from  the  agricultural  college  under  this 
section,  or  any  person  who  shall  violate  any  of  the  provisions  of 
this  section  shall  be  deemed  guilty  of  a  misdemeanor  and  upon 
conviction  thereof  shall  be  punished  by  a  fine  of  not  less  than 
ten  dollars  nor  more  than  five  hundred  dollars  or  by  imprison¬ 
ment  in  the  county  jail  for  not  less  than  ten  nor  more  than 
ninety  days,  or  by  both  such  fine  and  imprisonment. 

See  Section  (172—53)  20. 

Pharmaceutical  experiment  station.  Section  392em — 12. 
The  board  of  regents  of  the  state  university  are  authorized  and 
directed  to  establish,  equip  and  maintain  in.  the  department  of 
pharmacy  of  the  state  university  a  pharmaceutical  experiment 
station.  The  duties  of  the  said  station  shall  be : 

(1)  To  co-operate  with  the  bureau  of  plant  industry  of  the 
department  of  agriculture  in  the  maintenance  of  the  northern 
station  for  the  cultivation  of  medicinal  plants  and  to  dissemi¬ 
nate  such  information  as  may  lead  to  the  proper  cultivation  of 
medicinal  plants  and  the  production  of  high  grade  vegetable 
drugs  in  this  state;  and 

(2)  To  serve  the  public  at  large  by  co-operation  with  both 
pharmacists  and  physicians  in  securing  for  the  sick  the  best 
medicines  that  pharmaceutical  science  and  art  can  provide, 
and  further  by  co-operation  with  the  state  board  of  pharmacy, 


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the  state  board  of  health,  and  the  dairy  and  food  commission 
to  bring  about  these  results. 

See  (172—53)  21. 

Appropriation  for  contagious  abortion.  Section  392f — 5. 
There  is  appropriated  to  the  regents  of  the  university  out  of 
any  money  in  the  treasury  not  otherwise  appropriated  the  sum 
of  five  thousand  dollars,  said  sum  to  be  expended  by  said  board 
through  the  agricultural  college  in  experimenting  with  the  dis¬ 
ease  amongst  animals  known  as  “contagious  abortion,”  with 
a  view  of  finding  a  cure  therefor  and  thereby  eradicating  such 
disease. 

Soil  survey  and  map.  Section  392k — 1.  The  geological  and 
natural  history  survey  of  the  state  of  Wisconsin  is  directed  to 
cause  a  soil  survey  and  a  soil  map  of  the  state  to  be  made  for 
the  purpose  of  ascertaining  the  character  and  fertility  of  the 
developed  and  undeveloped  soils  of  the  state,  the  extent  and 
practicability  of  drainage  of  the  swamp  and  wTet  lands  of  the 
state,  and  the  means  for  properly  conserving  and  increasing 
the  fertility  of  the  soil  of  the  state,  such  work  to  be  carried  on 
in  co-operation  with  the  college  of  agriculture  of  the  Univer¬ 
sity  of  Wisconsin. 


State  Inspection  of  Military  Department. 

(From  Chapter  26.) 

Inspection  of  cadets.  Section  411a.  The  president  or  othe* 
principal  officer  of  any  incorporated  college  or  school  of  this 
state  which  shall  be  under  military  discipline  or  maintain  a 
regular  military  department,  and  have  enrolled,  uniformed  and 
armed  not  less  than  one  hundred  cadets,  may  apply  in  writing 
to  the  governor  to  have  the  corps  of  cadets  of  such  college  or 
school  inspected  by  the  adjutant  general  or  other  officer  ap¬ 
pointed  by  the  governor  for  that  purpose.  Such  inspection  shall 
be  made  during  April,  May  or  June  of  each  year,  upon  fifteen 
days’  notice  by  mail  to  such  applicant  by  the  inspecting  officer, 
and  shall  be  held  in  the  manner  and  form  prescribed  for  troops 
in  the  service  of  the  United  States. 

Officer’s  report.  Section  411b.  The  inspecting  officer  shall 
report  to  the  governor: 

( 1 )  The  number  of  officers,  noncommissioned  officers  and 
privates  paraded  and  inspected  by  him  in  uniform. 

(2)  What  such  uniform  is  and  the  condition  thereof. 

(3)  The  discipline  and  state  of  instruction. 

(4)  The  number  and  amount  of  arms,  accoutrements,  stores 
and  military  property  exhibited  to  him. 

(5)  The  true  condition  of  the  same. 

(6)  If  a  cavalry  company  or  battery  of  artillery  be  main- 


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tained,  what  number  of  horses  were  exhibited  and  their  condi¬ 
tion. 

(7)  Whether  such  corps  has  complied  with  these  provisions 
and  the  orders  and  regulations  of  the  governor. 

(8)  Such  other  matters  as  may  be  required. 

The  inspecting  officer  shall  receive  no  pay  for  services,  but 
may  be  allowed  ten  cents  per  mile,  to  be  paid  by  each  of  the 
schools  so  inspected. 

Suspension  from  inspection.  Section  411c.  If  such'  in¬ 
specting  officer  shall  report  that  such  corps  numbers  less  than 
one  hundred  enrolled,  uniformed  and  armed,  or  that  its  con¬ 
dition  and  military  proficiency  are  not  such 'as,  in  his  judg¬ 
ment,  to  entitle  it  to  the  benefits  of  section  411d,  the  governor 
may  notify  the  president  or  other  principal  officer  of  such  col¬ 
lege  or  school  that  it  is  suspended  from  the  benefits  hereby 
given,  and  in  such  case  no  application  for  an  inspection  as 
herein  provided  shall  be  granted  for  a  period  of  two  years. 

Graduates;  rank  of.  Section  41  Id.  In  all  cases  where  a 
satisfactory  report  is  made  by  such  inspecting  officer  the  stu¬ 
dents  of  such  college  or  school,  residents  of  this  state,  gradu¬ 
ating  during  the  year  within  which  such  report  is  made  ;and 
receiving  full  diploma  or  certificate  from  such  college  or 
school,  shall  be  entitled  to  the  honorary  rank  as  second  lieu¬ 
tenant  in  the  unorganized  militia  of  the  state ;  provided,  that 
nothing  herein  shall  be  construed  to  give  such  graduates  any 
right  to  wear  the  uniform  of  the  Wisconsin  national  guard. 


Relations  to  Other  State  Education. 

(From  Chapter  27.) 

Teachers  9  certificates.  Section  458b — 2.  1.  The  presi¬ 

dent  of  the  University  of  Wisconsin  shall  issue  to  all  graduates 
of  the  regular  collegiate  courses  of  such  university,  a  certified 
statement  showing  the  name  of  the  graduate,  the  date  of  grad¬ 
uation,  the  course  from  which  graduated,  and  that  said  gradu¬ 
ate  has  completed  the  course  of  pedagogical  instruction  pre¬ 
scribed  by  the  university  for  all  persons  who  intend  to  teach. 
This  certificate  when  presented  to  the  state  superintendent, 
shall  entitle  the  holder  thereof  to  receive  a  license  qualifying 
the  holder  to  teach  in  any  public  school  in  the  state  of  Wis¬ 
consin  for  one  year  from  the  date  of  issuance.  Upon  presenta¬ 
tion  of  satisfactory  evidence  of  successful  teaching  for  one  year 
in  the  public  schools  of  the  state,  such  license  may  be  renewed 
for  one  year  by  the  state  superintendent. 

Farmers  '  institute  bulletins  for  all  district  school  li¬ 
braries.  Section  486c.  The  superintendent  of  agricultural 
institutes  shall  send  to  each  town  clerk  in  the  state  a  sufficient 


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number  of  bound  copies  of  the  bulletins  of  such  institutes  to 
enable  him  to  supply  each  school  district  in  his  town  with 
one  copy  of  each  edition  thereof.  The  town  clerks  shall  dis¬ 
tribute  said  bulletins  to  the  school  libraries  in  their  respective 
towns,  from  which  they  shall  be  loaned  in  like  manner  and 
under  the  same  regulations  prescribed  for  the  loaning  of  books 
therein. 


County  Agriculturae  Representatives 

County  agricuutural  representatives.  Section  553q — 1. 
For  the  purpose  of  aiding  in  the  agricultural  development  of  the 
several  counties  in  the  state,  any  county,  excepting  those  in 
which  county  schools  of  agriculture  are  maintained,  is  hereby 
authorized,  through  its  county  board,  to  establish  and  maintain 
an  agricultural  representative  in  accordance  with  the  provisions 
of  this  act. 

Duties.  Section  553q — 2.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  such  agri¬ 
cultural  representative  to  advise  and  consult  with  individuals  in 
reference  to  farming  methods ;  to  aid  in  the  development  and  im¬ 
provement  of  agriculture  and  country  life  conditions;  to 
offer  courses  of  instruction  to  young  people  and  adults;  to  aid 
in  the  formation  of  co-operative  enterprises ;  to  promote  better 
business  methods  among  farmers ;  to  give  such  assistance  as 
possible  in  the  development  of  agricultural  teaching  in  the 
schools  of  the  county,  and  any  other  work  designed  to  promote 
the  agriculture  or  rural  development  of  the  county.  It  shall 
be  his  duty  to  keep  in  touch  with  all  agencies  in  the  state  and 
elsewhere  that  will  enable  him  to  utilize  the  most  improved 
knowledge  in  the  furtherance  of  his  work. 

County  levy  and  appropriation.  Section  553q — 3.  For  the 
partial  maintenance  of  agricultural  development  of  such  county 
under  the  supervision  of  such  agricultural  representative,  au¬ 
thority  is  hereby  given  the  county  board  to  raise,  by  tax  levy  or 
otherwise,  for  periods  of  not  less  than  two  years  each,  such  moneys 
as  may  be  deemed  sufficient  to  cover  the  share  of  the  county  in 
such  work;  provided,  however,  that  in  no  case  shall  the  amount 
appropriated  by  the  county  for  this  work  be  less  than  one 
thousand  dollars  annually;  and  provided  further,  that  such 
moneys  shall  be  disbursed  by  the  county  treasurer  only  upon 
orders  of  the  county  clerk  which  shall  have  been  approved  by 
the  county  agricultural  representative. 

State  aid.  Section  553q — d.  To  supplement  the  funds  pro¬ 
vided  by  the  county  for  the  agricultural  development,  state  aid, 
in  the  sum  of  one  thousand  dollars  annually,  shall  be  given  to 
each  county  in  which  the  county  board  has  made  the  required 
appropriation,  and  in  which  a  county  agricultural  representative 


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has  been  established.  Such  state  aid  shall  be  expended  under 
the  direction  of  the  board  of  regents  of  the  University  of  Wis¬ 
consin. 

Application  of  statute.  Section  553q — 5.  For  the  calendar 
year  1914,  this  work  shall  be  organized  in  not  to  exceed  ten 
counties  of  the  state  and  for  the  calendar  year  1915  in  not 
to  exceed  sixteen  counties  of  the  state. 

Mode  of  establishment.  Section  55 3 q — 6.  Immediately 
after  the  county  board  has  voted  to  establish  the  position  of 
county  agricultural  representative  and  has  provided  the  nec¬ 
essary  money  for  the  share  of  the  county  therefor,  the  county 
clerk  shall  send  the  application  of  such  county  to  the  dean  of 
the  college  of  agriculture  for  the  appointment  and  establish¬ 
ment  of  such  county  agricultural  representative.  All  appli¬ 
cations  from  the  several  counties  shall  be  so  made  prior  to 
December  tenth  of  each  year,  or  as  soon  thereafter  as  possible. 
In  case  the  applications  do  not  exceed  the  maximum  limit  of 
counties  that  can  be  provided  for  in  this  act,  the  board  of  re¬ 
gents  shall  select  as  soon  as  possible  a  properly  qualified  person 
to  serve  in  each  county  in  the  capacity  of  county  agricultural 
representative.  If,  however,  more  applications  are  received 
than  can  be  acted  on  in  accordance  with  the  provisions  of  this 
act,  the  clean  of  the  college  of  agriculture  shall  recommend  to 
the  board  of  regents  a  list  of  counties  not  in  excess  of  the  maxi¬ 
mum  number  authorized  by  this  act,  taking  into  consideration 
in  making  such  selection  the  best  interests  of  the  agricultural 
welfare  of  the  state. 

Co-operation  with  university  and  county  training  school. 
Section  553q — 7.  Authority  is  hereby  given  the  county  train¬ 
ing  school  board  of  any  county  in  which  an  agricultural  rep¬ 
resentative  is  established  to  enter  into  co-operation  with  the 
regents  of  the  university  with  reference  to  the  use  of  the 
county  agricultural  representative  in  connection  with  the  agri¬ 
cultural  instruction  given  in  said  county  training  school,  sub¬ 
ject  to  such  rules  and  conditions  as  may  be  mutually  agreed 
upon  between  said  county  training  school  board  and  the  re¬ 
gents  of  the  university. 

County  superintendent  to  co-operate.  Section  553q — 8. 
In  counties  where  the  work  of  the  county  agricultural  repre¬ 
sentative  is  not  connected  with  the  county  training  school,  the 
county  superintendent  of  schools  in  such  county  shall  co-operate 
with  the  county  agricultural  representative  in  such  way  as  best 
designed  to  further  the  interests  of  this  work  in  that  county. 
See  Section  (172—53)  22,  23  &  24. 


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Condemnation  of  Land-  Purchase  of  State  Manufactured 

Articles. 

(From  Chapter  33.) 

Condemnation  of  land;  appointment  of  commissioners. 
Section  605.  Whenever  in  the  opinion  of  the  state  board  of  con¬ 
trol,  the  board  of  regents  of  the  state  university  or  the  bo,ard 
of  regents  of  normal  schools,  either  of  the  institutions  of  the 
state  under  their  charge  shall  require  any  lands  for  its  use,  and 
they  shall  be  unable  to  agree  with  the  owner  upon  the  amount 
of  compensation  to  be;  paid  therefor,  or  when,  by  reason  of  the 
legal  incapacity  or  absence  of  any  such  owner  or  other  sufficient 
cause,  no  such  agreement  or  purchase  can  be  made  without  de¬ 
lay,  the  judge  of  the  circuit  court  of  the  county  in  which  such 
lands  or  any  part  thereof  are  situated  may,  upon  application  in 
writing  of  any  such  board  containing  a  description  of  the  lands 
so  required,  appoint  three  disinterested  persons,  residents  of 
such  county,  commissioners  to  appraise  said  lands.  Ten  days’ 
notice  of  such  application,  containing  a  description  of  the  lands 
required,  shall  be  personally  served  upon  the  owner  or  given 
by  publication  for  three  successive  weeks  in  a  newspaper  pub¬ 
lished  in  said  county.  Upon  such  application  and  upon  a  like 
notice  of  motion  therefor  such  judge  may  make  an  injunetional 
order  restraining  the  owner  or  any  other  person  from  cutting 
or  injuring  any  of  the  timber  growing  on  the  land  required,  or 
committing  any  other  waste  thereon  during  the  pendency  of 
Said  proceedings,  if  it  be  made  to  appear  that  the  destruction 
of  such  timber  or  other  waste  will  seriously  impair  the  value  of 
such  land  for  the  uses  for  which  it  is  required.  A  violation  of 
such  order  shall  be  punishable  in  the  same  manner  as  the  viola¬ 
tion  of  an  order  made  by  a  circuit  judge  at  chambers. 

Their  oaths;  notice  to  landowner.  Section  606.  The 
commissioners  so  appointed  shall,  before  entering  upon  the 
discharge  of  their  duties,  take  an  oath  that  they  will  faithfully 
and  according  to  the  best  of  their  ability  examine  the  lands  so 
required  and  impartially  estimate  and  appraise  the  value  of  the 
same.  They  shall  give  at  least  live  days’  notice  of  the  time 
when  they  will  proceed  to  view  and  examine  the  lands  required 
and  determine  the  value  thereof.  Such  notice  may  be  served 
personally  on  the  owner  or  by  leaving  a  true  copy  thereof  at 
his  place  of  residence  if  within  the  state.  If  any  owner  be  a 
minor,  an  idiot  or  an  insane  person  such  notice  may  be  served 
upon  the  guardian  of  such  owner,  if  he  have  any  such  within 
this  state ;  and  in  all  other  cases  it  may  be  served  by  publication 
thereof  for  at  least  three  successive  weeks  in  a  newspaper  pub¬ 
lished  in  the  county  where  such  lands  are  situated. 


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Condemnation  of  lands  ;  board  of  control  or  regents  may 
discontinue  proceedings.  Section  607.  1.  The  commissioners 
shall  at  the  time  fixed  in  said  notice  proceed  to  view  and  ex¬ 
amine  said  lands  and  estimate  and  determine  the  value  thereof ; 
and  they  or  a  majority  of  them  shall  make  a  report  of  their 
valuation  to  the  circuit  court  of  said  county  in  writing  under 
their  hands  and  file  the  same  with  the  clerk  within  ten  days 
after  their  appraisal. 

2.  Either  party  may  appeal  to  the  circuit  court  from  such 
report  and  valuation  within  thirty  days  after  the  filing  thereof 
with  the  clerk  as  aforesaid  by  filing  in  the  clerk’s  office  a  writ¬ 
ten  notice  of  appeal. 

3.  In  case  no  appeal  shall  be  taken  from  the  report  and  val¬ 
uation  of  said  commissioners  a  judgment  may  be  entered  there¬ 
on  by  said  circuit  court. 

4.  Such  appeal  shall  be  considered  an  action  pending  in  said 
court,  in  which  the  landowmer  shall  be  plaintiff  and  the  state 
defendant ;  and  all  the  proceedings  in  such  action  shall  be  taken 
in  the  manner  provided  in  sections  1849,  1850  and  1855,  chapter 
87  so  far  as  applicable. 

5.  The  title  to  all  lands  so  taken,  upon  payment  of  the  com¬ 
pensation  finally  awarded,  shall  vest  in  the  state  in  fee  simple. 

6.  In  case  the  board  so  instituting  condemnation  proceedings 
shall  not  deem  it  for  the  best  interest  of  the  institution  for 
which  said  real  estate  .is  desired  to  take  the  same  at  the  price 
fixed  by  said  commissioners,  or  by  a  jury  upon  appeal  from  the 
award  of  said  commissioners,  said  board  may  within  thirty  days 
after  the  filing  of  the  award  of  said  commissioners  or  within 
thirty  days  after  assessment  of  damages  by  said  jury,  discontinue 
such  proceedings  upon  such  terms  as  to  the  court  shall  seem 
equitable  and  just. 

Manufactures,  purchase  of.  Section  608.  The  regents  of 
the  state  university  and  of  normal  schools  and  the  officers  of  all 
other  public  institutions  supported  and  maintained  in  whole  or 
in  part  by  the  state  are  required  to  obtain  from  the  state  prison 
at  Waupun,  or  from  some  of  the  state  institutions  which  manu¬ 
facture  the  same  of  suitable  quality,  all  chairs,  office,  household 
and  other  furniture,  boots,  shoes,  buggies,  carriages,  wagons, 
sleighs,  cutters  and  all  other  goods  necessarily  required  for  the 
use  of  the  state  university,  state  schools,  hospitals  or  other  state 
institutions  or  the  inmates  thereof  that  shall  or  can  be  made 
or  furnished  by  the  said  prison  or  by  any  such  other  institution, 
giving  to  the  proper  officers  of  such  institution  vouchers  there¬ 
for:  and  such  officers  shall  furnish  and  cause  to  be  made  and 
delivered  all  such  articles  or  goods  so  required  of  them  that 
can  be  made  or  furnished  by  the  said  prison  or  other  institution 
under  their  charge,  and  charge  the  same  on  its  books  to  the 
state  for  and  on  account  of  the  proper  officer  or  institution  pro¬ 
curing  the  same. 


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Officers  of  Military  Department  Eligible  in  Wisconsin 
National  Guard. 

(From  Chapter  34.) 

United  states  army  officer  may  be  colonel.  Section  635a 
The  governor  of  the  state  may  commission  any  retired  United 
States  army  officer  who  holds  the  position  of  professor  of  mili¬ 
tary  science  and  tactics  in  the  state  university,  or  at  any 
seminary  or  college  within  this  state  maintaining  military  in¬ 
struction  and  drill  in  its  course  of  study,  and  having  not  less 
than  one  hundred  students  on  its  drill  roll  at  any  one  term,  to 
the  rank  of  colonel  of  infantry ;  said  commission,  however,  shall 
not  entitle  such  professor  of  military  science  and  tactics  to 
command  in  the  state  militia. 

University  cadet  majors  brevetted  upon  examination. 
Section  636a.  The  students  of  the  University  of  Wisconsin 
who  shall  have  completed  four  years  of  military  drill  and  in¬ 
struction,  and  who  shall  have  been  commissioned  by  the  uni¬ 
versity  to  the  rank  of  major  or  higher  and  who  shall  have 
served  as  such  for  the  term  of  one  year,  shall  be  eligible  to 
appointments  as  brevet  second  lieutenants  in  the  Wisconsin 
national  guard  without  pay  or  remuneration  subject  to  assign¬ 
ment  to  duty  with  the  Wisconsin  national  guard,  at  the  discre¬ 
tion  of  the  governor,  during  the  next  five  years  succeeding  such 
appointment  providing  that  before  such  assignment  they  shall 
first  pass  the  prescribed  examination  before  a  board  of  officers  of 
the  Wisconsin  national  guard. 


The  State  Civil  Service. 

(From  Chapter  44A.) 

Classification  of  service.  Section  990 — 8,  The  civil  ser¬ 
vice  shall  be  divided  into  the  unclassified  service  and  the  classi¬ 
fied  service.  The  unclassified  service  shall  comprise :  All  officers 
elected  by  the  people.  All  officers  and  enployes  appointed  by 
the  governor  whether  subject  to  confirmation  or  not.  All  offi¬ 
cers  and  employes  in  any  department  for  the  creation  of  which 
a  vote  of  two-thirds  of  all  the  members  elected  to  each  house  is 
required.  All  presidents,  deans,  principals,  professors,  instruc¬ 
tors,  scientific  staff  and  other  teachers  in  the  university,  normal 
or  public  schools,  the  library  staff  in  any  library  maintained 
wholly  or  in  part  at  state  expense,  the  superintendent,  warden 
or  other  head  of  the  state  reformatory,  charitable  and  penal 
institutions.  All  persons  appointed  by  name  in  any  statute. 
All  legislative  officers.  The  classified  service  shall  comprise 
all  positions  not  included  in  the  unclassified  service. 


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State  Laboratory  of  Hygiene. 

(From  Chapter  56.) 

Establishment.  Section  1406m.  1.  There  'is  (established 

in  connection  with  the  state  university  a  continuance  of  the 
state  hygienic  laboratory,  to  be  known  as  the  state  laboratory  of 
hygiene. 

Personnel  ;  powers.  2.  The  director  of  this  laboratory  shall, 
whenever  feasible,  be  the  professor  in  charge  of  the  department 
of  bacteriology  and  hygiene  of  the  state  university.  A  bac¬ 
teriologist,  a  chemist  and  such  other  assistants  as  is  found  nec¬ 
essary  to  satisfactorily  carry  on  the  work  of  the  laboratory, 
shall  be  provided  by  the  board  of  regents  of  the  state  university. 
The  director  and  his  assistants  when  making  investigations 
affecting  the  public  health,  shall  have  the  same  right  of  inspec¬ 
tion  in  regard  to  all  matters  affecting  the  public  health  as  has 
been  and  may  be  conferred  upon  the  state  board  of  health. 

Use  by  state  board  of  health.  3.  The  use  of  this  laboratory 
by  the  state  board  of  health  shall  be  determined  by  rules  and 
regulations  adopted  by  the  director  of  the  state  laboratory  of 
hygiene,  the  president  of  the  state  university,  and  the  executive 
committee  consisting  of  two  members,  of  the  state  board  of 
health. 

Purposes.  4.  The  purpose  of  this  laboratory  shall  be  to 
undertake  the  examination  of  water  supplies  for  domestic  pur¬ 
poses,  the  examination  of  material  from  the  various  contagious 
and  infectious  diseases,  or  material  from  suspected  cases  of 
contagious  and  infectious  diseases  of  men  and  animals)  when 
public  health  is  concerned ;  to  examine  into  the  nature  ;and 
cause  of  disease  outbreaks  throughout  the  state ;  to  study  con¬ 
ditions  relating  to  diseases  and  their  dissemination,  or  any  other 
problems  that  bear  directly  or  indirectly  upon  the  public  health. 
The  examination  of  water  supplies  shall  include  the  establish¬ 
ment  of  a  water  survey  of  the  state  and  shall  comprehend  not 
only  the  examination  from  a  public  health  standpoint,  but  may 
also  include  the  examination  of  water  to  ascertain  its  suitabil¬ 
ity  for  manufacturing  and  commercial  purposes,  as  determined 
by  the  rules  and  regulations  herein  provided  for. 

Preparation  of  vaccine  for  hydrophobia.  5.  There  may  be 
established  and  operated  in  connection  with  the  state  laboratory 
of  hygiene,  an  institute  for  the  preparation  of  vaccine  for  ad¬ 
ministering  the  Pasteur  treatment  for  the  prevention  of  hydro¬ 
phobia. 

Examinations  for  physicians,  veterinarians  and  health 
officers.  6.  The  state  laboratory  of  hygiene  shall  examine 
free  of  charge  the  following  specimens  when  submitted  in 


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proper  containers  by  licensed  physicians,  veterinarians,  health 
officers  and  health  commissioners:  The  sputum  of  all  persons 
afflicted  with  tuberculosis,  or  suspected  of  being  afflicted  with 
tuberculosis,  when  sent  in  proper  containers;  blood  from  sus¬ 
pected  typhoid  fever  cases  (widal  test),  swabs  from  patients 
suspected  of  diphtheria  for  diagnosis  and  for  the  release  of 
quarantine;  rabies  in  man  or  animals,  anthrax,  glanders  and 
such  other  examinations  as  may  be  provided  for  in  the  rules 
and  regulations  governing  the  use  of  the  laboratory.  The  lab¬ 
oratory  shall  be  used  to  make  such  studies  in  sanitation  and 
hygiene  as  will  assist  in  the  enforcement  of  the  health  laws  of 
the  state,  or  aid  in  improving  the  general  sanitary  condition  of 
the  state. 

Appropriation.  7.  For  the  purpose  of  carrying  out  the  pro¬ 
visions  of  this  section  the  board  of  regents  of  the  state  university 
shall  continue  to  annually  appropriate,  so  far  as  practicable, 
from  the  university  fund  income  a  sum  sufficient  to  properly 
maintain  and  operate  such  laboratory. 


Co-operation  of  the  University  with  the  Dairy  and  Food 

Commissioner. 

(From  Chapter  56b.) 

Dairy  and  food  commissioner;  food  conventions^  maximum 
expense  .of  analyses.  Section  1410d.  The  governor  may 
authorize  the  commissioner  or  his  assistants,  chemists  or  in¬ 
spectors,  when  not  engaged  in  the  performance  of  other  official 
duties,  to  give  such  aid  in  farmers’  institutes,  dairy  and  food 
and  farmers’  conventions  and  the  agricultural  department  of 
the  state  university  as  may  be  deemed  advisable. 


Material  for  Anatomy. 

(From  Chapter  58.) 

Bodies  for  dissection  ;  western  judicial  district.  Section 
1437.  Every  public  officer  located  and  residing  in  the  western 
United  States  judicial  district,  for  the  state  of  Wisconsin,  hav¬ 
ing  charge  of  the  body  of  any  deceased  person  required  to  be 
buried  at  public  expense,  shall  promptly  notify  the  relatives  or 
kindred  of  such  deceased  person,  if  lie  knows,  or  can  with  rea¬ 
sonable  diligence  ascertain  any  of  them,  and  deliver  the  body 
to  any  relative  or  kindred  who  shall  claim  the  same,  within  a 
reasonable  time  after  notice;  but  if  any  relative  or  kindred, 
or  anyone  in  their  behalf,  shall  not  claim  the  same  within  forty- 
eight  hours  after  death,  or  if  the  relatives  or  kindred  notified 


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shall  have  expressed  acquiescence  in  the  disposition  thereof 
hereinafter  mentioned,  such  officer  shall  at  the  expense  of  the 
University  of  Wisconsin  immediately  notify  the  demonstrator 
of  anatomy  of  the  university  by  telegraph,  if  practicable,  or 
in  any  other  expeditious  manner,  that  such  body  is  at  his  dis¬ 
posal  for  anatomical  purposes.  The  said  demonstrator,  when 
generally  authorized  thereto  by  the  regents,  shall  immediately 
upon  receipt  of  such  notification,  inform  the  officer  whether 
such  body  is  desired  for  such  purpose.  If  he  signify  that  it 
is  so  desired,  the  officer  shall  deliver  the  body  properly  en¬ 
cased  for  transportation  without  charge  to  the  agent  of  the 
express  company  at  the  nearest  railroad  station,  consigned  to 
such  demonstrator,  or  to  his  agent  authorized  to  receive  it; 
provided,  that  if  previous  application  for  bodies  shall  have 
been  made  to  the- regents  of  the  university  by  any  duly  incor¬ 
porated  college  or  colleges  or  medical  schools  in  said  district, 
he  shall  under  the  direction  of  the  president  of  the  university, 
or  in  his  absence  the  vice-president,  equitably  distribute  such 
bodies  between  the  university  and,  the  applying  colleges  and 
schools  according  to  their  respective  needs  and  claims,  the  in¬ 
stitution  receiving  the  body  paying  the  transportation  ex¬ 
penses  incidental  thereto.  If  the  demonstrator  shall  not  desire 
such  body  for  such  purpose  for  the  university  or  applying 
college  or  school,  then  he  shall  immediately  notify  the  Mil¬ 
waukee  medical  college  and  the  Wisconsin  college  of  physi¬ 
cians  and  surgeons  of  Milwaukee,  Wisconsin,  and  thereupon 
such  public  officer  upon  like  application  if  immediately  made, 
and  like  assumption  of  liability  for  expenses,  all  as  aforesaid, 
shall  without  charge  deliver  such  body  so  encased  for  trans¬ 
portation  to  such  express  company’s  said  agent  consigned  to 
said  Milwaukee  medical  college  or  Wisconsin  college  of  physi¬ 
cians  and  surgeons,  which  first  shall  present  him  an  order  there¬ 
for,  signed  by  the  president  or  secretary  thereof,  which  order 
shall  state  that  such  body  shall  be  used  only  for  the  promotion 
of  anatomical  science  within  this  state,  and  that  the  remains 
of  such  body  not  so  used,  shall  be  afterwards  decently  buried 
or  cremated  in  compliance  with  such  regulations  therefor  as 
the  state  board  of  health  shall  prescribe. 

Bodies  for  dissection;  eastern  judicial  district.  Section 
1437a.  Every  public  officer  located  and  residing  in  the  eastern 
United  States  judicial  district  for  the  state  of  Wisconsin,  hav¬ 
ing  charge  of  the  body  of  any  deceased  person  required  to  be 
buried  at  public  expense,  shall  promptly  notify  the  relatives 
or  kindred  of  such  deceased  person,  if  he  knows,  or  can  with 
reasonable  diligence  ascertain  any  of  them,  and  deliver  the 
body  to  any  relative  or  kindred  who  shall  claim  the  same, 
within  a  reasonable  time  after  notice,  but  if  no  relative  or  kin¬ 
dred  or  anyone  in  their  behalf  shall  claim  the  same  within 


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forty-eight  hours  after  death,  or  if  the  relatives  or  kindred 
notified  shall  have  expressed  acquiescence  in  the  disposition 
thereof  hereinafter  mentioned,  such  officer  shall  immediately 
notify  such  agent  as  shall  be  appointed  jointly  by  the  Milwau¬ 
kee  medical  college  and  the  Wisconsin  college  of  physicians 
land  surgeons  of  Milwaukee,  Wisconsin,  by  telegraph  if  practi¬ 
cable,.  or  in  any  other  expeditious  manner,  that  such  body  is 
at  his  disposal  for  anatomical  purposes,  and  shall  deliver  such 
body,  without  charge,  to  the  agent  of  said  colleges  so  ap¬ 
pointed,  or  properly  encased  for  transportation,  to  the  agent  of 
the  express  company  at  the  nearest  railroad  station  consigned 
to  such  incorporated  college  or  school  as  such  jointly  appointed 
agent  shall  direct,  provided  that  if  previous  applications  for 
bodies  shall  have  been  made  to  the  said  jointly  appointed 
agent  by  any  other  duly  incorporated  college  or  colleges  or 
medical  schools  in  said  district,  he  shall  under  the  direction  of 
the  presidents  of  said  Milwaukee  colleges,  or  in  the  absence  of 
either,  the  vice-president  acting,  equitably  distribute  such 
bodies  between  the  said  Milwaukee  colleges  and  said  other  in¬ 
corporated  colleges  and  schools  in  said  district,  according  to 
their  respective  needs  and  claims,  and  such  body  shall  be  con¬ 
signed  to  the  distributee  accordingly,  the  institution  receiving 
the  same  paying  the  transportation  expenses  incidental  thereto 
and  presenting  to  such  public  officer  an  order  therefor  signed 
by  the  president  or  secretary  of  the  college  or  school  to  which 
the  same  is  to  be  given,  stipulated  for  the  payment  of  such 
transportation  expenses  and  stating  that  such  body  shall  be 
used  only  for  the  promotion  of  anatomical  science  within  this 
state,  and  that  the  remains  of  such  body  not  so  used  shall  be 
afterwards  decently  buried  or  cremated  in  compliance  with 
such  regulations  therefor  as  the  state  board  of  health  shall 
prescribe. 

Bodies  not  to  be  used  for  purposes  of  dissection,  when. 
Section  1437b.  But  in  any  event,  the  body  of  any  person  who 
in  his  last  sickness  shall  make  request  to  be  buried  or  cremated, 
and  of  any  stranger  or  traveler  who  shall  have  suddenly  died, 
shall  not  be  so  disposed  of.  No  person  having  charge  of  any 
body  hereby  authorized  to  be  disposed  of,  shall  sell  or  de¬ 
liver  the  same  to  anyone  to  be  used  for  scientific  or  other  pur¬ 
poses  outside  of  the  state;  and  no  body  of  any  person  who 
shall  die -with  smallpox,  diphtheria  or  scarlet  fever  shall  be 
disposed  of  as  provided  in  sections  1437 — 1437d,  inclusive. 

HOW  TREATED;  DELIVERY  OF,  TO  RELATIVES.  SECTION  1437c. 
Upon  the  receipt  of  any  body  at  the  state  university  or  any 
medical  college,  it  shall  be  properly  embalmed  for  preserva¬ 
tion,  and  shall  be  retained  for  twelve  days  before  bcjng  used 
or  dismembered  for  anatomical  purposes,  and  shall  be  delivered 
to  any  relative  or  kin  of  the  deceased  claiming  the  same,  upon 


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the  payment  of  the  expenses  incurred  respecting  such  body, 
and  satisfactory  proof  of  relationship. 

Penalty.  Section  1437d.  Any  officer  or  person  having  in 
charge,  refusing  to  report  and  deliver  such  body  of  any  de¬ 
ceased  person,  when  applied  for  and  required  by  the  provisions 
of  sections  1437  to  1437d,  inclusive,  or  violating  the  provisions 
of  sections  1437  to  1437d,  inclusive,  forbidding  the  sale,  disposi¬ 
tion  or  delivery  of  any  such  body,  to  be  used  for  scientific  or 
other  purposes  outside  of  the  state,  shall  be  liable  to  the  per¬ 
son,  regents,  or  medical  colleges  herein  named,  aggrieved,  in 
the  sum  of  fifty  dollars,  to  be  recovered  in  an  action. 


Agriculture  and  Extension.  , 

FARMERS  ’  INSTITUTES  AUTHORIZED. 

(From  Chapter  61.) 

Farmers’  institutes.  Section  1494b.  The  board  of  regents 
of  the  state  university  shall  hold,  at  such  times  and  places  as 
they  may  determine,  institutes  for  the  instruction  of  the  citi¬ 
zens  of  this  state  in  the  various  branches  of  agriculture;  the 
instruction  given  thereat  shall  be  such  as  to  present  the  re¬ 
sults  of  the  most  recent  investigations  and  experiments  in  the¬ 
oretical  and  practical  agriculture.  They  may  make  such  rules 
and  regulations  as  may  be  deemed  proper  for  organizing  and 
conducting  such  institutes  and  may  employ  an  agent  or  agents 
to  perform  such  work  in  connection  therewith  as  they  may  di¬ 
rect.  The  expense  of  such  institutes  shall  be  charged  to  the 
appropriation  for  the  board  of  regents  of  the  university  for 
farmers’  institutes. 

See  Section  (172 — 53)  2. 

The  Sale  of  Commercial  Fertilizers. 

Labels  on  ;  sample,  etc.  Section  1494c.  Every  person  who 
shall,  in  this  state,  sell  or  expose  for  sale  /any  commercial  fertil¬ 
izer  or  any  material  used  for  fertilizing  purposes,  the  price  of 
which  exceeds  ten  dollars  per  ton,  shall  affix  to  every  package 
of  such  fertilizer  or  material,  in  a  conspicuous  place  on  the  out¬ 
side  thereof,  a  plainly  printed  statement  clearly  and  truly  cer¬ 
tifying  the  number  of  net  pounds  therein,  name  or  trade-mark 
under  which  the  article  is  sold,  name  of  the  manufacturer  or 
shipper,  place  of  manufacture,  place  of  business  of  the  manu¬ 
facturer  and  of  the  following  fertilizing  constituents,  namely : 
The  percentage  of  nitrogen  in  an  available  form,  of  potash  sol¬ 
uble  in  water  and  of  available  phosphoric  acid,  soluble  and  re¬ 
verted,  as  well  as  total  phosphoric  acid.  Every  such  person 


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shall  also  file  with  the  director  of  the  agricultural  experiment 
station  of  the  University  of  Wisconsin,  in  the  month  of  Decem¬ 
ber  in  each  year,  a  certified  copy  of  such  statement  for  every 
such  fertilizer  or  material  bearing  a  distinguishing  brand  or 
trade-mark  and  which  he  sells  or  exposes  for  sale,  which  copy 
shall,  when  required  by  such  director,  be  accompanied  by  a 
sealed  glass  jar  or  bottle  containing  at  least  one  pound  of  such 
fertilizer  or  material,  and  an  affidavit  that  such  sample  corre¬ 
sponds,  within  reasonable  limits,  to  the  fertilizer  or  material 
which  it  represents  in  the  percentage  of  the  aforesaid  constitu¬ 
ents,  which  affidavit  shall  apply  to  the  remaining  portion  of 
the  then  calendar  year.  Additional  brands  of  such  fertilizer 
or  material  may  be  offered  for  sale  during  the  year,  provided 
samples  and  affidavits  are  so  filed  at  least  one  month  before 
they  are  offered,  in  which  case  an  analysis  fee  of  double  the 
usual  amount  must  be  paid.  A  deposit  of  the  sample  of  fertil¬ 
izer  shall  be  required  by  said  director  unless  the  person  selling 
or  offering  for  sale  a  fertilizer  or  material  within  this  section 
shall  certify  that  its  composition  for  the  succeeding  year  is  to 
be  the  same  as  given  in  the  last  previously  certified  statement, 
in  which  case  the  furnishing  of  a  sample  shall  be  at  the  discre¬ 
tion  of  said  director. 

Analysis;  license;  fee;  unlawful  sale.  Section  1494d. 
Said  director  shall  analyze  or  cause  to  be  analyzed  all  such 
samples  and  publish  the  results  of  such  analysis  in  a  bulletin 
or  report  on  or  before  the  first  day  of  the  next  succeeding 
April.  Every  manufacturer,  importer,  agent  or  seller  of  any 
such  fertilizer  or  material  shall  pay  annually  to  said  director 
for  each  brand  thereof  sold  within  this  state  the  sum  of  twenty- 
five  dollars,  and  upon  doing  so  and  complying  with  the  other 
provisions  of  law  shall  receive  from  him  a  certificate  of  such 
compliance  which  shall  be  a  license  for  the  sale  of  each  brand 
thereof  within  the  state  for  the  calendar  year  for  which  such 
fee  is  paid.  All  moneys  received  by  said  director  pursuant  to 
this  section  shall  be  paid  into  the  university  fund  income  of 
the  state  treasury.  Any  person  who  shall  sell  or  ex¬ 
pose  for  sale  any  commercial  fertilizer  or  material  used  for  fer¬ 
tilizing  purposes  which  is  within  the  provisions  of  the  preced¬ 
ing  section  without  complying  with  the  foregoing  provisions 
or  which  contains  a  substantially  smaller  percentage  of  fertil¬ 
izing  constituents  than  are  indicated  by  the  printed  statement 
thereon  shall  be  punished  by  fine  of  one  hundred  dollars  for 
the  first  offense  and  of  two  hundred  dollars  for  each  subse¬ 
quent  offense. 

Samples;  iiow  sealed;  publication  of  result  of  analysis. 
Section  1494e.  Said  director  shall  annually  analyze  or  cause 
to  be  analyzed  at  least  one  sample  of  every  fertilizer  or  mater¬ 
ial  used  for  fertilizing  purposes  sold  or  exposed  for  sale  under 


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the  two  preceding  sections  and  enforce  their  provisions  by  pros¬ 
ecuting  or  causing  the  prosecution  of  every  person  who  shall 
violate  them.  He  may  in  person  or  by  deputy,  on  tendering 
the  value  thereof,  take  a  sample,  not  exceeding  two  pounds, 
for  said  analysis  from  any  lot  or  package  of  fertilizer  or  any 
material  used  for  fertilizing  purposes  which  may  be  in  the  pos¬ 
session  of  any  manufacturer,  importer,  agent  or  dealer  in  this 
state ;  said  sample  shall  be  drawn  in  the  presence  of  the  per¬ 
son  from  whom  taken  or  his  representative,  be  taken  from  a 
parcel  or  a  number  of  packages  which  shall  not  be  less  than 
ten  per  centum  of  the  whole  lot  sampled,  be  thoroughly  mixed 
and  divided  into  two  equal  samples,  placed  in  glass  vessels 
and  carefully  sealed  and  a  label  placed  on  each,  stating  the 
name  or  brand  of  the  fertilizer  or  material  sampled,  the  name 
of  the  party  from  whose  stock  the  sample  was  drawn,  the  time 
and  place  of  such  taking  ;  said  label  shall  be  signed  by  the  di¬ 
rector  or  his  deputy  and  such  person  or  his  representative  at 
the  drawing  and  sealing  of  said  samples ;  one  of  said  duplicate 
samples  shall  be  retained  by  the  director  and  the  other  by  the 
party  whose  stock  was  sampled ;  the  sample  retained  by  the  di¬ 
rector  shall  be  for  comparison  with  the  certified  statement 
named  in  section  1494c.  The  result  of  the  analysis  of  the  sam¬ 
ple  or  samples  so  procured  shall  be  reported  to  the  person  re¬ 
questing  the  analysis  and  be  published  in  a  report  or  bulletin 
to  be  issued  within  a  reasonable  time. 

University  Extension  Authorized. 

University  extension.  Section  1494j.  U  The  board  of  re¬ 
gents  of  the  university  are  directed  to  carry  on  educational  ex¬ 
tension  and  correspondence  teaching. 

See  Section  (172 — 53)  1,  8  and  32. 

Pure  Seed  Law. 

Seeds;  sale;  label.  Section  1494x— 1.  No  person,  firm 
or  corporation  shall,  by  himself,  his  agent,  or  as  representative 
of  any  other  person,  firm  or  corporation,  sell  or  offer  for  sale 
or  distribution  within  the  state  for  seeding  purposes  any  lot  or 
package  of  agricultural  seeds  exceeding  one  pound  in  weight 
unless  the  same,  when  put  up  in  either  open  or  closed  packages, 
shall  have  attached  thereto  a  label  on  which  is  plainly  printed  or 
written,  in  the  English  language,  the  following: 

(1)  Name  and  kind  of  seed. 

(2)  Full  name  and  address  of  seedsman,  importer,  agent  or 

dealer. 

(3)  Statement  of  purity  of  the  seed  contained  therein.  (Im¬ 
purities  defined  in  sections  1494x — 3,  1494x — 4  and  1494x— 5 
hereof.) 

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(4)  Germinating  power  of  seed. 

(5)  State  or  locality  where  seed  was  grown;  provided,  how¬ 
ever,  that  this  requirement  applies  to  cereal  grains,  corn  and 
alfalfa,  seed  only. 

“  Agricultural  seeds,”  defined.  Section  1494x — 2.  For  the 
purposes  of  sections  1494x — 1  to  1494x — 16,  inclusive,  the  term 
‘'agricultural  seeds”  shall  include  seed  of  the  red  clover 
(either  medium  or  mammoth),  white  clover,  alsike  clover,  alf¬ 
alfa,  timothy,  orchard  grass,  Kentucky  blue  grass,  red  top, 
bromis  inermis,  oat  grass,  rye  grass,  the  fescues,  the  millets, 
other  grass-  and  forage  plant  seeds,  flax,  rape,  buckwheat,  and 
cereals. 

Standards  ;  noxious  seeds  ;  percentage  sale.  Section 
1494x — 3.  1.  No  agricultural  seeds,  as  defined  in  section  1494x — 2 
of  the  statutes,  shall  be  sold  or  offered  for  sale  or  distribution 
within  the  state,  which  contain  in  greater  numbers  than  one  to 
one  thousand  of  the  seed  under  examination  the  seeds  of  the 
following  named  noxious  weeds:  Canada  thistle  (qarduus  ar- 
vensis  Robs.),  couch,  quack  or  quitch  grass  (agropyron  repens 
Beauv.),  clover  dodder  (cuscuta  epithymum  Murr.),  field  dodder 
(cuscuta  arvensis  Beyrich),  alfalfa  dodder  (cuscuta  indecora 
choisy),  English  charlock  or  wild  mustard  (brassica  arvensis  B. 
S.  P.),  Indian  mustard  (brassica  juncea,  Cosson),  wild  oats 
(avena  fatua  L.),  corn  cockle  (agrostemma  githago),  ox-eye 
d;aisy  (chrysanthemum  leucanthemum  L.),  snapdragon  or  butter 
and  eggs  (linaria  linaria  Karst.),  sow  thistle  (sonchus  arvensis), 
buckhorn,  ribwort,  or  narrow-leaved  plantain  (plantago  lanceo- 
lata  L.). 

2.  Where  the  seeds  of  the  weeds  herein  mentioned  are 
present  in  fewer  numbers  than  one  to  one  thousand  of  the 
seed  being  examined,  a  statement  shall  be  so  made  on  the  label 
attached  to  the  package  naming  the  weed  seeds  present 
therein. 

Impure  seeds;  label.  Section  1494x — 4.  Seeds  of  any 
other  kind  than  those  mentioned  in  section  1494x — 3,  when 
found  in  any  sample  of  agricultural  seeds  shall  be  classed  as 
impurities  therein,  and  when  present  in  quantity  exceeding 
two  per  cent  of  the  sample  either  singly  or  in  combination, 
the  approximate  percentage  of  each  shall  be  printed  on  the 
label  attached  to  the  container,  as  required  by  section  1494x — 1. 

Foreign  matter;  label.  Section  1494x — 5.  Sand,  dirt, 
sticks,  broken  seeds,  and  other  foreign  matter  shall  be  considered 
as  impurities  when  found  in  agricultural  seeds  sold,  offered  or 
exposed  for  sale  within  the  state  for  seeding  purposes,  and  when 
present  in  quantity  exceeding  two  per  cent  thereof,  the  total 
percentage  of  such  impurities  shall  be  stated  on  the  label  at¬ 
tached  to  the  container. 


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Mixed  or  adulterated.  Section  1494x — 6.  Agricultural 
seeds,  containing  five  per  cent  or  more  by  weight  of  agricul¬ 
tural  seed  other  than  the  named  sample,  shall  be  plainly  la¬ 
beled  with  the  percentage  of  such  seed. 

Misbranding.  Section  1494x — 7.  Agricultural  seeds  shall 
be  considered  as  misbranded: 

(1)  When  seeds  low  in  value  are  submitted  under  the  la¬ 
bel  for  those  of  similar  appearance  but  greater  value ; 

(2)  When  other  than  Wisconsin-grown  agricultural  seeds 
are  labeled  as  such ; 

(3)  When  southern-grown  seeds  are  labeled  as  northern- 
grown  ; 

(4)  When  seeds  are  in  any  other  respect  not  true  to  the 
label  under  which  they  are  sold  or  offered  for  sale : 

(5)  When  seeds  are  sold  under  any  label  other  than  that 
oi  the  dealer  selling  same ; 

(6)  When  labels  or  tags  supplied  by  a  wholesale  dealer  are 
attached  to  lots  of  seed  not  purchased  from  such  wholesale 
dealer,  or  to  lots  of  seed  other  than  those  for  which  they  were 
intended  to  be  used. 

When  so  misbranded,  agricultural  seeds,  as  defined  herein, 
shall  not  be  sold  or  offered  for  sale  within  the  state. 

Application  of  law.  Section  1494x — 8.  The  provisions  of 
sections  1494x — 1  to  1494x — 16,  inclusive,  shall  not  be  con¬ 
strued  as  applying  to : 

(1)  Any’  person  growing,  possessing  for  sale,  or  selling 
seeds  for  food  purposes  only. 

(2)  Persons  selling  or.  offering  for  sale  to  a  seed  dealer  un¬ 
cleaned  seeds  to  be  recleaned  and  tested  by  him  before  being 
exposed  for  sale  upon  the  general  market. 

(3)  Seed  that  is  in  store  for  the  purpose  of  recleaning,  and 
which  is  not  possessed,  sold  or  offered  for  sale  for  seed  pur¬ 
poses. 

(4)  Mixture  of  seeds  for  lawn,  pasture,  or  meadow  pur¬ 
poses  except  that  the  sale  of  such  mixtures  is  subject  to  the 
restrictions  of  sections  1494x — 3  and  1494x — 4  of  the  statutes. 

Pure  seed.  Section  1494x — 9.  For  the  purpose  of  sections 
1494x — 1  to  1494x — 16,  inclusive,  seed  shall  be  deemed  pure 
when  it  contains  no  seed  of  any  kind  except  the  one  being  ex¬ 
amined. 

Enforcement;  inspection.  Section  1494x — 10.  The  en¬ 
forcement  of  sections  1494x — 1  to  1494x — 16,  inclusive,  is  hereby 
placed  in  the  agricultural  experiment  station  under  the  super¬ 
vision  of  the  director  and  he  is  hereby  empowered,  to  appoint 
such  inspectors  and  assistants  as  may  be  necessary  to  execute 
its  provision.  Salaries,  compensations  and  expenses  of  such 
inspectors  and  assistants  shall  be  charged  lagainst  the  proper 
appropriation  for  the  board  of  regents  of  the  university. 


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Inspectors  ’  duties  j  samples  ;  prosecution.  Section  1494x— 
11.  1.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  inspectors  and  assistants 

to  collect  samples  of  agricultural  seeds  in  the  open  market  and 
analyze  the  same  in  conformity  with  the  rules  and  regulations 
established  by  the  seed  inspector.  They  are  vested  with  all  nec¬ 
essary  powers  for  the  proper  execution  of  their  duties,  includ¬ 
ing  all  actions  or  procedure  needful  to  secure  evidence  of  fraud 
and  dishonest  dealing  in  or  the  fraudulent  advertising  of  seed; 
also,  including  entrance  upon  or  into  all  premises  or  grounds 
where  seeds  are  being  sold  or  exposed  for  sale,  and  by  tendering 
payment  at  the  current  rates,  shall  have  power  to  take  samples 
of  all  such  seed.  Provided,  also,  that  sealed  duplicates  of  such 
samples  shall  be  left  with  the  dealer.  All  samples  of  seed  sent 
to  the  inspector  for  testing,  or  collected  by  him  or  his  assistants, 
shall  be  accompanied  by  a  statement  of  the  quantity  of  seed 
like  the  sample  held  for  sale  by  the  dealer. 

2.  Prosecutions  for  violation  of  this  act  shall  be  brought  in 
the  proper  court  by  the  district  attorney  of  the  county  in  which 
said  violation  occurred,  upon  complaint  of  the  seed  inspector  or 
his  assistants. 

3.  The  seed  inspector  shall  have  power  whenever  he  shall 
deem  it  necessary  to  call  upon  the  attorney-general  for  aid  in 
the  prosecution  of  all  cases  arising  under  the  provisions  of  sec¬ 
tions  1494x — 1  to  1494x — 16,  inclusive. 

Tests,  published.  Section  1494x — 12.  Samples  of  seed  col¬ 
lected  in  the  open  market  by  the  inspector  and  his  assistants 
shall  be  tested  as  herein  provided  and  the  results  of  all  such 
tests  shall  be  published  in  bulletins  of  the  experiment  station, 
together  with  the  names  and  post-office  addresses  of  the  per¬ 
sons,  firms  or  corporations  from  which  such  samples  were  ob¬ 
tained.  The  cost  of  such  printing  shall  be  charged  against  the 
proper  appropriation  for  the  board  of  regents  of  the  university. 

Guarantees  of  purity  and  viability  ;  basis.  Section 
1494x — 13.  Guarantees  of  purity  and  viability  shall  be  based 
upon  tests  made  by  the  experiment  station  or  by  seed  dealers  or 
their  agents,  subject  to  retest  and  ratification  by  the  experiment 
station,  when  it  shall  deem  necessary.  Dealers  who  are  testing 
their  own  seeds  shall  be  required  to  submit  samples  thereof  to 
the  experiment  station  for  retesting  upon  demand  of  the  in¬ 
spector.  Should  the  guarantees  shown  on  the  dealer’s  label 
not  be  substantially  equivalent  to  the  actual  value  of  the  seed, 
as  determined  by  the  experiment  station,  the  dealer  shall  be 
subject  to  prosecution  and  penalty,  as  defined  in  section 
1494x— 15. 

Printed  standards  of  purity  and  germination  oP  agricultural 
seeds  and  directions  for  making  analyses  of  seeds  shall  be 
furnished  by  the  experiment  station  upon  request. 


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Sample  defined.  Section  1494x — 14.  For  the  purposes  of 
sections  1494x — 1  to  1494x — 16,  inclusive,  a  sample  of  agricul¬ 
tural  seed,  as  defined  in  section  1494x — 2  of  the  statutes,  shall 
consist  of  not  more  than  four  or  less  than  two  ounces  of  the 
seed  to  be  examined. 

Penalty.  Section  1494x — 15.  Whoever  violates  any  of  the 
provisions  named  in  sections  1494x — 1  to  1494x — 16,  inclusive, 
or  who  shall  attempt  to  interfere  with  the  inspectors  nr  assist¬ 
ants  in  the  discharge  of  the  duties  named  therein,  shall  he 
guilty  of  a  misdemeanor  and  upon  conviction  shall  be  punished 
by  a  fine  of  not  less  than  ten  nor  more  than  fifty  dollars  for  each 
and  every  offense. 

Fee  for  testing;  expense  fund.  Section  1494x — 16.  A  fee 
of  twenty-five  cents  shall  be  paid  for  each  sample  of  seed  sent  to 
the  seed  inspector  for  testing  under  the  provisions  of  sections 
1494x — 1  to  1494x — 16,  inclusive,  and  shall  be  paid  within  one 
week  of  receipt  into  the  university  fund  income  of  the  state 
treasury. 


Inspection  of  Nurseries. 

Appointment  of  inspector;  duties.  (Section  1494 — 1).  1. 

The  governor  shall  designate  some  person  as  the  state  orchard 
and  nursery  inspector,  who  shall  carry  out  the  provisions  of 
sections  1494—1  to  1494 — lOn,  inclusive,  under  his  direction. 
The  necessary  traveling  expenses  of  such  inspector  shall  be 
charged  against  the  proper  appropriation  for  the  board  of 
regents  of  the  university. 

2.  Said  inspector  shall  either  personally  or  through  his  deputy 
or  deputies,  inspect  any  nursery,  fruit  or  garden  plantation, 
park,  cemetery,  private  orchard,  public  places  and  any  place 
that  he  has  reason  to  suspect  is  infested  with  San  Jose  scale  or 
other  injurious  insects  or  fungous  diseases.  For  this  purpose 
he  or  his  deputy  or  deputies  shall  have  free  access  to  any  field, 
garden,  packing  grounds,  buildings,  cellar  or  other  place  where 
his  duties  of  carrying  out  the  provisions  of  sections  1494 — 1  to 
1494 — lOn,  inclusive,  shall  call  him,  and  any  person  attempting 
to  hinder,  thwart  or  defeat  such  inspection  by  misrepresentation 
or  concealment  of  facts  or  conditions  or  otherwise  shall  be  liable 
to  the  payment  pf  penalty  or  forfeiture  as  hereinafter  provided. 

See  Section  (172 — 53)  15. 

Duty  of  owners  of  nurseries.  Section  1494' — la.  It  shall 
be  unlawful  for  any  person,  firm  or  corporation  in  this  state  who 
is  engaged  in  the  growing  and  propagation  of  trees,  shrubs,  plants 
ami  vines  for  sale,  to  knowingly  permit  any  San  Jose  scale  or 
other  dangerous  insects  or  fungous  diseases  to  exist  in  their  nurs¬ 
eries  or  on  their  property  adjacent  to  the  nursery.  It  shall  also 


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be  unlawful  to  sell  or  offer  for  sale  any  such  infested  or  infected 
stock. 

Nurseries  ;  diseased  conditions  ^present  ;  notice  ;  shipment 
prohibited.  Section  1494 — 2.  In  case  the  inspector  shall  find 
present  on  any  nursery  premises  or  packing  ground  or  in  any 
cellar  or  building  used  for  storage  of  nursery  stock,  any  of  the 
aforesaid  San  Jose  scale  or  other  injurious  insects  and  fungous 
diseases,- he  shall  notify  the  owner  or  person  having  charge  of 
the  premises,  in  writing,  to  that  effect,  and  if  such  owner,  after 
receiving  such  notice  shall  ship  or  deliver  any  trees,  vines,  shrubs, 
or  plants  affected  by  said  San  Jose  scale  or  other  injurious  in¬ 
sects  and  fungous  diseases,  he  shall  be  subject  to  payment  of 
penalty  or  forfeiture  as  hereinafter  provided. 

Notice  of  diseased  condition  of  orcUard.  Section  1494 — 3. 
If  the  inspector  in  carrying  out  the  provisions  of  sections  1494 — 1 
to  1494 — lOn,  inclusive,  shall  find  upon  examination  any  orchard, 
small  fruit  plantation,  park,  cemetery  or  any  public  place  in¬ 
fested  with  San  Jose  scale  or  other  injurious  insects  and  fungous 
diseases,  he  shall  notify  the  owner  or  the  person  having  charge  of 
such  premises  in  writing  to  that  effect,  and  the  owner  or  person 
having  charge  of  the  premises  shall  within  ten  days  after  such 
notice  cause  the  removal  of  such  trees,  plants  or  shrubs,  if  in¬ 
capable  of  successful  treatment,  otherwise  cause  them  to  be 
treated  as  the  inspector  may  direct.  Failure  to  comply  with  this 
section  shall  subject  the  person  failing  to  a  penalty  or  forfeiture 
as  hereinafter  provided. 

Importations;  duty  of  carrier.  Section  1494 — 4.  When¬ 
ever  any  trees.,  shrubs,  plants  or  vines  are  shipped  in  this  state, 
or  into  this  state  from  another  state,  country  or  province  with¬ 
out  a  valid  certificate  plainly  fixed  on  outside  of  package,  box 
or  car  containing  the  same,  showing  that  the  contents  have  been 
inspected  by  a  duly  appointed  state  or  government  official,  and 
pronounced  apparently  free  from  San  Jose  scale  or  other  in¬ 
jurious  insects  or  fungous  diseases,  the  fact  must  be' promptly 
reported  to  said  inspector  by  the  railroad,  express  or  steamboat 
company,  or  other  persons  carrying  the  same,  with  the  statement 
of  the  source  whence  such  articles  came  and  the  party  to  whom 
they  are  addressed.  Further,  said  carrier  shall  refuse  all  such 
shipments  of  nursery  stock.  Failure  to  comply  with  this  section 
shall  subject  the  person  or  the  carrier  so  failing  to  a  fine  of  not 
less  than  fifty  dollars  nor  more  than  one  hundred  dollars. 

Infested  stock;  sale;  ltst  of  purchasers.  Section  1494 — 5. 
Any  person  growing  or  offering  for  sale  in  this  state  stock  that 
is  known  to  be  infested  with  San  Jose  scale  or  other  injurious 
insects  and  fungous  diseases  shall,  upon  demand  of  inspector, 
furnish  within  ten  days  a  list  of  all  persons  so  far  as  to  him 
known  to  whom  he  has  sold  or  delivered  any  such  stock,  together 
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him  known ;  such  information  shall  be  preserved  and  be  for  the 
sole  use  of  the  inspector  in  carrying  out  the  provisions  of  sec¬ 
tions  1494 — 1  to  1494 — 10m.  Any  person  violating  the  provi¬ 
sions  of  this  section  shall  be  liable  to  payment  of  a  penalty  or 
forfeiture  as  hereinafter  provided. 

Application  for  inspection.  Section  1494 — 5a.  Nursery¬ 
men  shall  make  application  to  the  state  orchard  and  nursery  in¬ 
spector  for  inspection  of  their  stock,  on  or  before  June  fifteenth 
of  each  year.  Failing  to  comply  with  this  section  said  nursery¬ 
men  shall  be  liable  for  extra  charges  to  cover  traveling  expenses 
of  the  inspector. 

Certificate  of  inspection;  fees;  printed  matter.  Section 
1494 — 6.  1.  Said  orchard  and  nursery  inspector  shall  cause  to 

be  issued  to  owners  of  any  nursery  in  this  state  after  the  nursery 
stock  has  been  inspected  by  authorized  official  inspectors  and 
found  to  be  apparently  free  from  San  Jose  scale  or  other  in¬ 
jurious  insects  and  fungous  diseases,  a  certificate  setting  forth  the 
fact  of  such  inspection  and  the  number  of  acres  or  fraction 
thereof  inspected  and  may  issue  a  license  permitting  any  nursery 
so  inspected  to  offer  for  sale  nursery  stock  in  this  state.  Said 
license  and  certificate  shall  be  valid  not  to  exceed  one  year  from 
October  first,  unless  revoked  for  cause  by  the  state  inspector. 

2.  The  cost  of  each  such  license  shall  be  five  dollars  for  nurs¬ 
eries  occupying  less  than  one  acre  and  ten  dollars  for  all  nurseries 
occupying  more  than  one  acre,  except  as  follows  :  In  case  only 
small,  cane  or  bush  fruit  plants  are  propagated  for  sale,  a  ffie 
of  five  dollars  shall  be  charged  for  less  than  five  acres,  and  ten 
dollars  for  five  or  more  acres.  "Wilful  misrepresentation  or  false 
declaration  of  acreage,  or  character,  or  variety,  or  quality  of 
stock,  in  a  nursery  or  offered  for  sale,  shall  constitute  a  mis¬ 
demeanor  punishable  by  penalty  or  forfeiture  as  hereinafter  pro¬ 
vided.  All  persons,  firms  or  corporations  selling  nursery  stock 
in  the  state  shall  furnish  the  chief  inspector  with  copies  of  all 
their  literature  which  is  printed  or  mimeographed,  including 
catalogues,  price  lists,  order  forms,  contracts  and  agreements 
which  are  furnished  for  the  use  of  agents  or  customers  or  both. 

Dealer's  license.  Section  1494 — 6a.  Any  person,  firm  or 
corporation,  other  than  an  agent  working  on  commission,  en¬ 
gaged  in  selling  nursery  stock  in  this  state,  that  grows  no  nursery 
stock  shall  be  considered  a  dealer  and  must  secure  a  dealer’s 
license  by  paying  a  fee  of  five  dollars  and  furnishing  a  sworn 
affidavit  that  he  will  sell  only  stock  which  has  been  duly  inspected 
and  certified  by  an  official  state  inspector.  Failure  to  comply 
with  this  requirement  shall  subject  any  person,  firm  or  corpora¬ 
tion,  so  failing,  to  a  penalty  or  forfeiture  as  hereinafter  provided. 

Foreign  dealer’s  license.  Section  1494 — 7.  Any  person, 
firm  or  corporation  outside  the  state  desiring  to  sell  nursery  stock 
at  retail,  through  agents  or  by  mail  order  in  the  state,  shall  first 


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obtain  a  license  by  the  payment  of  five  dollars  and  by  filing  a 
duplicate  copy  of  their  official  certificate  signed  by  the  state  in¬ 
spector.  Nursery  firms  outside  the  state  that  carry  on  an  exclu¬ 
sively  wholesale  business  in  the  state  are  not  required  to  obtain 
a  license,  but  shall  file  a  duplicate  copy  of  their  official  certificate 
signed  by  the  chief  inspector. 

Agent's  duplicate  license.  Section  1494 — 7a.  Agents  sell¬ 
ing  nursery  stock  on  commission  in  the  state  for  any  person, 
firm  or  corporation  located  in  the  state,  or  outside  the  state,  shall 
be  required  to  carry  a  duplicate  copy  of  the  license  held  by  the 
principal.  Said  duplicate  licenses  to  be  issued  only  by  the  offi¬ 
cial  inspector  after  receiving  from  the  principal  a  signed  state¬ 
ment  that  the  applicant  is  a  bona  fide  agent  working  on  commis¬ 
sion.  The  cost  of  each  duplicate  license  issued  shall  be  one  dollar. 

Persons  importing  plants  must  notify  inspector.  Section 
1494 — 7b.  Any  person,  persons  or  company  importing  plants 
or  nursery  stock  from  foreign  countries  shall  notify  the  inspector 
of  such  shipment,  its  date  of  arrival,  nature  of  the  shipment,  and 
shall  hold  such  shipment  unopened  until  duly  inspected  and  re¬ 
leased  by  the  inspector.  If  acting  as  agents  for  a  party  or  parties 
holding  a  license,  they  are  required  to  obtain  agents'  duplicate 
license.  Failure  to  comply  with  this  requirement  shall  be  subject 
to  payment  of  a  penalty  or  forfeiture  as  hereinafter  provided. 

Tags.  Section  1494 — 8.  Any  person  or  company  who  shall 
engage  in  the  selling  and  shipping  of  fruit  trees  in  the  state  is 
hereby  required  to  attach  to  each  package,  box,  bale  or  carload 
lot,  tags  on  Avhich  a  certified  copy  of  their  valid  license  shall  be 
printed.  The  use  of  tags  bearing  an  invalid  or  altered  certificate 
is  hereby  prohibited.  Any  person,  firm  or  corporation  failing 
to  comply  with  this  provision  shall  be  liable  to  the  payment  of  a 
penalty  or  forfeiture  of  license  as  hereinafter  provided. 

Growers  of  small  fruits:  exchanging;  what  selling  pro¬ 
hibited.  Section  1494 — 9.  .  Growers  of  small  fruits  not  engaged 
in  a  regular  nursery  business  who  may  exchange  or  give  away 
plants  in  their  immediate  vicinity,  and  so  long  as  such  exchang¬ 
ing  is  confined  within  the  state,  shall  not  be  required  to  take  out 
a  license.  The  selling  or  bartering  of  trees,  shrubs,  or  plants  by 
an  unlicensed  person  or  persons  with  a  person  or  persons  hold¬ 
ing  a  license  doing  regular  nursery  business  is  prohibited  by  sec¬ 
tions  1494 — 1  to  1494 — 10m. 

Deputies;  compensation.  Section  1494 — 10.  The  state  or¬ 
chard  and  nursery  inspector  is  hereby  authorized  to  appoint 
a  deputy  or  deputies  or  assistants,  subject  to  the  confirmation  of 
such  appointment  by  the  director  of  the  agricultural  experiment 
station. 

Penalty.  Section  1494 — 101.  Any  person  or  persons,  corpora¬ 
tion  or  corporations,  transportation  companies,  common  carriers, 
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cemeteries,  etc.,  violating  any  provision  of  sections  1494 — 1  to 
1494 — 10m  shall  be  guilty  of  a  misdemeanor  and  shall  either  for¬ 
feit  his  license  or  be  fined  the  sum  of  not  less  than  twenty-five 
dollars  and  not  more  than  five  hundred  dollars,  or  both. 

Expenses  ;  how  paid.  Section  1494 — 10m.  The  fees  as  pro¬ 
vided  for  in  sections  1494 — 1  to  1494 — 10m  shall  be  paid  into 
the  university  fund  income  of  the  state  treasury.  The  state 
orchard  and  nursery  inspector  shall  keep  an  accurate  account 
of  moneys  received  and  file  an  annual  report  of  the  work  done 
with  the  director  of  the  agricultural  experiment  station.  The 
state  inspector  shall  further  publish  as  directed  by  the  director 
of  the  agricultural  experiment  station  of  the  University  of  Wis¬ 
consin  an  annual  report  covering  the  essential  phases  of  the 
nursery  inspection  and  the  general  conditions  pertaining  there¬ 
to.  The  cost  of  publishing  such  report  shall  be  charged  to  the 
proper  appropriation  for  the  regents  of  the  university. 

District  attorney  to  prosecute.  Section  1494 — lOn.  It  shall 
be  the  duty  of  each  district  attorney  to  whom  the  director  of  the 
agricultural  experiment  station  or  his  deputy  shall  present  satis¬ 
factory  evidence  of  violation  of  any  provision  or  provisions  of 
sections  1494 — 1  to  1494 — lOn,  inclusive,  to  institute  and  prose¬ 
cute  without  delay,  appropriate  proceedings  in  the  proper  court 
for  the  enforcement  of  the  provisions  of  said  sections. 

Manufacture  and  sale  of  Insecticides  and  Fungicides. 

Penalty  for  adulteration  or  misbranding.  Section  1494 — 
lOo.  It  shall  be  unlawful  for  any  person,  firm  or  corporation 
to  manufacture  or  compound  within  the  state  of  Wisconsin  any 
insecticide,  paris  green,  lead  arsenate  or  fungicide  which  is  adul¬ 
terated  or  misbranded  within  the  meaning  of  sections  1494 — Ido 
to  1494 — lOw,  inclusive;  and  any  person,  firm  or  corporation 
violating  any  of  the  provisions  of  this  section  shall  be  guilty  of 
a  misdemeanor,  and  shall,  on  conviction  thereof,  be  fined  not  to 
exceed  two  hundred  dollars  for  the  first  offense,  and  on  convic¬ 
tion  for  each  subsequent  offense  be  fined  not  to  exceed  three  hun¬ 
dred  dollars,  or  sentenced  to  imprisonment  for  not  to  exceed  one 
year,  or  both  such  fine  and  imprisonment,  in  the  discretion  of 
the  court. 

Penalty  for  sale,  export  or  import.  Section  1494 — lOp.  It 
shall  be  unlawful  for  any  person,  firm  or  corporation,  to  intro¬ 
duce,  import,  ship,  deliver  or  receive  into  this  state,  or  to  ship  or 
deliver  from  this  state,  any  insecticide  or  fungicide  which  is 
adulterated  or  misbranded  within  the  meaning  of  sections  1494 — 
lOo  to  1494 — lOw,  inclusive ;  and  it  shall  likewise  be  unlawful  for 
any  person,  firm  or  corporation  to  sell  or  offer  for  sale,  or  deliver 
for  pay  or  otherwise  in  the  state,  any  such  adulterated  or  mis¬ 
branded  insecticide  or  fungicide  in  any  form  whatsoever.  Any 


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person,  firm  or  corporation  violating  any  of  the  provisions  of 
sections  1494 — lOo  to  1494 — 10w,  inclusive,  shall  be  guilty  of  a 
misdemeanor,  and  shall  on  conviction  thereof,  be  fined  not  to  ex¬ 
ceed  two  hundred  dollars  for  the  first  offense,  and  on  conviction 
for  each  subsequent  offense  not  exceeding  three  hundred  dollars, 
or  be  imprisoned  not  exceeding  one  year,  or  both  in  the  discretion 
of  the  court. 

Rules  and  regulations.  Section  1494 — lOq.  The  rules  and 
regulations  for  carrying  out  the  provisions  of  sections  1494 — lOo 
to  1494 — lOw,  inclusive,  including  the  collection  and  examination 
of  specimens  of  insecticides  and  fungicides,  manufactured  or 
compounded  or  introduced  or  shipped  or  sold  or  offered  for  sale, 
in  this  state,  shall  be  devised  and  executed  under  the  direction  of 
the  director  of  the  agricultural  experiment  station. 

District  attorneys  to  prosecute.  Section  1494 — lOr.  It 
shall  be  the  duty  of  each  district  attorney  to  whom  the  director  of 
the  agricultural  experiment  station  or  his  deputy  shall  present 
satisfactory  evidence  of  violation  of  any  provision  or  provi¬ 
sions  of  sections  1494 — lOo  to  1494 — lOw,  inclusive,  to  institute 
and  prosecute  without  delay  appropriate  proceedings  in  the 
proper  court  for  the  enforcement  of  the  provisions  of  sections 
1494 — lOo  to  1494 — lOw,  inclusive. 

Immunity  by  wholesaler’s  guaranty.  Section  1494 — 10s. 
No  dealer  or  agent  shall  be  prosecuted  under  the  provisions 
of  sections  1494 — lOo  to  1494 — lOw,  inclusive,  when  he  can 
establish  a  guaranty  signed  by  the  wholesaler,  jobber,  manu¬ 
facturer  or  other  party  residing  in  the  United  States,  from 
whom  he  purchased  such  articles,  to  the  effect  that  the  same 
is  not  adulterated  or  misbranded  within  the  meaning  of  sec¬ 
tions  1494 — lOo  to  1494 — lOw,  inclusive,  designating  it.  Said 
guaranty,  to  afford  protection,  shall  contain  the  name  and  ad¬ 
dress  of  the  party  or  parties  making  the  sale  of  such  articles 
to  such  dealer  or  agent,  and  in  such  case  said  party  or  parties 
shall  be  amenable  to  the  prosecutions,  fines  and  other  penalties, 
which  would  attach  in  due  course  to  the  dealer  or  agent  under 
the  provisions  of)  sections  1494 — lOo  to  1494 — lOw,  inclusive. 

Definition  of  terms.  Section  1494 — lOt.  The  term  “in¬ 
secticide”  as  used  in  sections  1494 — lOo  to  1494 — lOw,  inclu¬ 
sive,  shall  include  any  substance  or  mixture  of  substances  in¬ 
tended  to  be  used  for  preventing,  destroying,  repelling  or 
mitigating  any  insects  which  may  infest  vegetation,  man  or 
other  [animals,  or  households,  or  be  present  in  any  environ¬ 
ment  whatsoever.  The  term  “paris  green”  as  used  in  sections 
1494 — lOo  to  1494 — lOw,  inclusive,  shall  include  the  product 
sold  in  commerce  as  paris  green  and  chemically  known  as  the 
aceto-arsenite  of  copper.  The  term  “lead  arsenate”  as  used  in 
sections  1494 — lOo  to  1494 — lOw,  inclusive,  shall  include  the 
product  or  products  sold  in  commerce  as  lead  arsenate  and 
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(H3AS04)  by  replacing  one  or  more  hydrogen  atoms  by  lead. 
The  term  “ fungicide”  as  used  in  sections  1494 — lOo  to 
1494 — lOw,  inclusive,  shall  include  any  substance  or  mixture  of 
substances  intended  to  be  used  for  preventing,  destroying,  re¬ 
pelling  or  mitigating  any  and  all  fungi  that  may  infest  vegeta¬ 
tion  or  be  present  in  any  environment  whatsoever. 

Adulteration  defined.  Section  1494 — lOu.  1.  For  the  pur¬ 
pose  of  sections  1494 — lOo  to  1494 — lOw,  inclusive,  any  article 
shall  be  deemed  to,  be  adulterated : 

In  the  case  of  paris  green:  First,  if  it  does  not  contain  at 
least  fifty  per  cent  of  arsenious  oxide;  second,  if  it  contains 
arsenic  in  water-soluble  forms  equivalent  to  more  than  three 
and  one-half  per  cent  of  arsenious  oxide ;  third,  if  any  substance 
has  been  mixed  and  packed  with  it  so  as  to  reduce  or  lower  or 
injuriously  affect  its  quality  or  strength. 

2.  In  the  case  of  lead  arsenate :  First,  if  it  contains  more  than 
fifty  per  cent  of  water ;  second,  if  it  contains  total  arsenic  equiv¬ 
alent  to  less  than  twelve  and  one-half  per  cent  of  arsenic  oxid 
(As205)  ;  third,  if  it  contains  arsenic  in  water-soluble  forms 
equivalent  to  more  than  seventy-five  one  hundredths  per  cent 
of  arsenic  oxid  (As205)  ;  fourth,  if  any  substances  have  been 
mixed  and  packed  with  it  so  as  to  reduce,  lower  or  injuriously 
affect  its  quality  or  strength;  that  extra  water  may  be  added 
to  lead  arsenate  (as  described  in  this  paragraph)  if  the  result¬ 
ing  mixture  is  labeled  lead  arsenate  and  water,  the  percentage 
of  extra  water  being  plainly  and  correctly  stated  on  the  label. 

3.  In  the  case  of  insecticides  or  fungicides,  other  than  paris 
green  and  lead  arsenate :  First,  if  its  strength  or  purity  fall  be¬ 
low  the  professed  standard  or  quality  under  which  it  is  sold ; 
second,  if  any  substance  has  been  substituted  wholly  or  in 
part  for  the  article ;  third,  if  any  valuable  constituent  of  the 
article  has  been  wholly  or  in  part  abstracted ;  fourth,  if  it  is  in¬ 
tended  for  use  on  vegetation  and  shall  contain  any  substance 
or  substances  which,  although  preventing,  destroying,  repelling 
or  mitigating  insects,  shall  be  injurious  to  such  vegetation  when 
used. 

Misbranding  defined.  Section  1494 — lOv.  1.  The  term  “  mis¬ 
branded”  as  used  herein  shall  apply  to  all  insecticides,  paria 
greens,  lead  arsenates  or  fungicides,  or  articles  which  enter  into 
the  composition  of  insecticides  or  fungicides,  the  package  or 
label  of  which  shall  bear  any  statement,  design  or  device  re¬ 
garding  such  article  or  the  ingredients  or  substances  contained 
therein  which  shall  be  false  or  misleading  in  any  particular,  and 
to  all  insecticides,  paris  greens,  lead-  arsenates  or  fungicides 
which  are  falsely  branded  as  to  the  state,  territory  or  country 
in  which  they  are  manufactured  or  produced. 

2.  For  the  purpose  of  sections  1494 — lOo  to  1494 — lOw,  inclu¬ 
sive,  an  article  shall  be  deemed  to  be  misbranded: 


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(a)  In  the  case  of  insecticides,  paris  greens,  lead  arsenates 
and  fungicides:  First,  if  it  be  an  imitation  or  offered  for  sale 
under  the  name  of  another  article ;  second,  if  it  be  labeled  or 
branded  so  as  to  deceive  or  mislead  the  purchaser,  or  if  the 
contents  of  the  package  as  originally  put  up  shall  have  been 
removed  in  whole  or  in  part  and  other  contents  shall  have  been 
placed  in  such  package ;  third,  if  in  package  form,  and  the  con¬ 
tents  are  stated  in  terms  of  weight  or  measure,  they  are  not 
plainly  and  correctly  stated  on  the  outside  of  the  package. 

(b)  In  the  case  of  insecticides  (other  than  paris  greens  and 
lead  arsenates)  and  fungicides:  First,  if  it  contains  arsenic  in 
any  of  its  combinations  or  in  the  elemental  form  and  the  total 
amount  of  arsenic  present  (expressed  as  per  cent  of  metallic 
arsenic)  is  not  stated  on  the  label;  second,  if  it  contains  arsenic 
in  any  of  its  combinations  or  in  the  elemental  form  and  the 
amount  of  arsenic  in  water-soluble  forms  (expressed  as  per 
cent  of  metallic  arsenic)  is  not  stated  on  the  label;  third,  if  it 
consists  partially  or  completely  of  an  inert  substance  or  sub¬ 
stances  which  do  not  prevent,  destroy,  repel  or  mitigate  insects 
or  fungi,  and  does  not  have  the  names  and  percentage  amounts 
of  each  and  every  one  of  such  inert  ingredients  plainly  and 
correctly  stated  on  the  label ;  that  in  lieu  of  naming  and  stating 
the  percentage  amount  of  each  and  every  inert  ingredient  the 
producer  may  at  his  discretion  state  plainly  upon  the  label  the 
correct  names  and  percentage  amounts  of  each  and  every  in¬ 
gredient  of  the  insecticide  or  fungicide  having  insecticidal  or 
fungicidal  properties,  and  make!  no  mention  of  the  inert  in¬ 
gredients,  except  in  so  far  as  to  state  the  total  percentage  of 
inert  ingredients  present. 

Fees  for  examination  or  analysis.  Section  1494 — lOw.  A 
fee  not  to  exceed  five  dollars  may  be  collected  for  the  examina¬ 
tion  or  analysis  of  each  sample  of  insecticide  or  fungicide  sub¬ 
mitted  by  any  manufacturer,  wholesaler,  jobber  or  dealer.  Such 
fees  shall  be  paid  into  the  university  fund  income  of  the  state 
treasury. 


Sale  of  Concentrated  Feeding  Stuffs. 

Concentrated  commercial  feeding  stuffs,  definition.  Sec¬ 
tion  1494 — 11.  The  term  “concentrated  commercial  feeding 
stuffs,  ”  as  used  in  sections  1494 — 11  to  1494 — 18,  inclusive,  shall 
include  linseed  meals,  cotton  seed  meals,  cocoanut  meals,  oil 
meals  of  ail  kinds,  gluten  meals,  pea  meals,  gluten  feeds,  maize 
feeds,  starch  feeds,  sugar  feeds,  molasses  feeds,  hominy  feeds, 
cerealine  feeds,  distillers’  grains,  dried  brewers’  grains,  malt 
sprouts,  alfalfa  meal,  dried  beet  pulp,  corn,  wheat,  rye,  and 
buckwheat  bran,  middlings,  or  shorts,  rice  meals,  oat  feeds, 
barley  feeds,  corn  and  oat  feeds,  dried  blood,  tankage,  ground 


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beef  or  fish  scraps,  mixed  feeds  of  all  kinds,  also  condimental 
stock  foods,  patented  and  proprietary  stock  foods  claimed  to 
possess  nutritive  as  well  as  medicinal  properties,  and  all  other 
materials  intended  for  feeding  to  domestic  animals ;  but  shall 
not  include  hays  and  straws,  the  whole  seeds  nor  the  unmixed 
meals  made  directly  from  the  entire  grains  of  wheat,  rye,  barley, 
oats,  Indian  corn,  buckwheat,  sorghum,  broom  corn,  millet,  and 
fiax  seed.  Provided,  that  nothing  in  section  1494 — 11  to  1494 — 18, 
inclusive,  shall  be  construed  as  prohibiting  persons  engaged, 
within  the  state  of  Wisconsin,  in  the  business  of  manufacturing 
flours  and  malt  from  selling  at  the  place  where  made,  their  own 
manufacture  of  mill  feeds  or  malt  sprouts  without  complying 
with  the  provisions  of  sections  1494 — 11  to  1494 — 18,  inclusive. 

Plants  and  seeds  seller  must  certify  name,  kind,  number, 
nursery.  Section  1494 — 11m.  Any  person,  firm  or  corporation 
who  shall,  by  himself,  his  agent,  or  as  agent  or  representative 
of  any  other  person,  firm  or  corporation,  sell  or  deliver,  in  this 
state,  fruit  trees,  shrubs,  vines,  cuttings,  buds  or  ornamental 
plants  which  are  sold,  offered  or  exposed  for  sale  for  planting, 
shall,  at  the  time  of  the  delivery  of  the  same,  give  to  the  pur¬ 
chaser  a  certified  statement  of  such  sale,  giving  the  correct  name, 
kind,  and  number  of  each  variety  sold  and  the  name  and  loca¬ 
tion  of  the  nursery  or  place  where  such  trees,  shrubs,  vines, 
cuttings,  buds  or  ornamental  plants  were  fully  grown. 

Sale;  labeling*;  Section  1494 — 1 2j  Every  manufacturer, 
company,  or  person  who  shall  sell,  offer,  or  expose  for  sale  or 
for  distribution  in  this  state  any  concentrated  commercial  feed¬ 
ing  stuff  used  for  feeding  farm  live  stock,  shall  furnish  with 
each  car  or  other  amount  shipped  in  bulk  and  shall  affix  to 
every  package  of  such  feeding  stuff  in  a  conspicuous  place  on 
the  outside  thereof  a  plainly  printed  statement  clearly  and  truly 
certifying  the  number  of  net  pounds  in  the  car  or  package  sold 
or  offered  for  sale,  the  name  or  trade-mark  under  which  the 
article  is  sold,  the  name  of  the  manufacturer  or  shipper,  the 
place  of  manufacture,  the  place  of  business,  and  the  minimum 
percentages  it  contains  of  crude  protein,  and  of  crude  fat,  and 
the  maximum  percentage  of  crude  fiber  which  it  contains,  these 
constituents  to  be  determined  by  the  methods  adopted  by  the 
association  of  official  agricultural  chemists  of  the  United  States. 
Whenever  any  feeding  stuff  is  sold  at  retail  in  bulk  or  in  pack¬ 
ages  belonging  to  the  purchaser,  the  agent  or  dealer  shall  fur¬ 
nish  to  him  a  certified  copy  of  the  statement  named  in  this  sec¬ 
tion. 


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Traveling  Schools  of  Agriculture. 

Dissemination  of  agricultural  knowledge;  appropriation. 
Section  1494 — 12m.  1.  The  regents  of  the  university  are  di¬ 

rected  to  carry  on,  under  the  supervision  of  the  dean  of  the  col¬ 
lege  of  agriculture,  demonstrations  and  such  other  experiments 
and  investigations  as  they  may  deem  advisable  for  the  improve¬ 
ment  of  agricultural  knowledge,  and  to  conduct  traveling  schools 
of  agriculture  which  may  be  held  in  conjunction  with  the  county 
agricultural  training  schools,  and  to  provide  for  the  compensa¬ 
tion  and  traveling  expenses  of  instructors  in  agriculture,  whose 
functions  shall  be  to  assist  in  the  improvement  of  agricultural 
education  and  the  dissemination  of  agricultural  knowledge. 

See  Section  (172 — 53)  3  &  4. 

Further  Provisions  Relating  to  tiie  Sale  of  Feeding  Stuffs. 

Duty  before  offering  for  sale.  Section  1494 — 13.  Before 
any  manufacturer,  company  or  person  shall  sell,  offer  or  expose 
for  sale  in  this  state  any  concentrated  commercial  feeding  stuffs, 
he  or  they  shall  for  each  and  every  feeding  stuff  bearing  a  dis¬ 
tinguishing  name  or  trade-mark,  file  annually  during  the  month 
of  December  with  the  director  of  the  Wisconsin  agricultural  ex- 
peri  ment  station  a  certified  copy  of  the  statement  specified  in 
the  preceding  section,  said  certified  copy  to  be  accompanied, 
when  the  director  shall  so  request,  by  a  sealed  glass  jar  or  bottle 
containing  at  least  one  pound  of  the  feeding  stuff  to  be  sold  or 
offered  for  sale,  and  the  company  or  person  furnishing  said 
sample  shall  also  submit  a  satisfactory  affidavit  that  said  sample 
corresponds  within  reasonable  limits  to  the  feeding  stuff  which 
it  represents,  in  the  percentage  of  protein  and  fat  which  it  con¬ 
tains. 

License  fee  ;  commercial  fertilizer.  Section  1494 — 
14.  Each  manufacturer,  importer,  agent  or  seller  of  any 
concentrated  commercial  feeding  stuffs,  shall  pay  annually  to  the 
director  of  the  Wisconsin  agricultural  experiment  station  a 
license  fee  of  twenty-five  dollars.  Whenever  a  manufacturer, 
importer,  agent  or  seller  of  concentrated  commercial  feeding 
stuffs  desires  at  any  time  to  sell  such  material  and  has  not  paid 
the  license  *fee  therefor  in  the  preceding  month  of  December,  as 
required  by  this  section,  he  shall  pay  the  license  fee  prescribed 
herein  before  making  any  such  sale.  The  license  fee  received  by 
such  director  pursuant  to  the  provisions  of  this  section  shall  be 
paid  into  the  university  fund  income  of  the  state  treasury, 
and  he  shall  report  annually  to  the  regents  of  the 
University  of  Wisconsin  the  amount  received  and  the  expense 
incurred  for  salaries,  laboratory  expenses,  chemical  supplies, 


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traveling  expenses,  printing  and  other  necessary  matters. 
Whenever  the  manufacturer,  importer  or  shipper  of  concen¬ 
trated  commercial  feeding  stuffs  shall  have  filed  the  statement 
required  by  section  1494 — 12,  and  paid  the  license  fee  as  pre¬ 
scribed  in  this  section,  no  agent  or  seller  of  such  manufacturer, 
importer  or  shipper  shall  be  required  to  file  such  statement  or 
pay  such  fee. 

Analysis  of;  samples  how  procured.  Section  1494 — 15.  The 
director  of  the  Wisconsin  agricultural  experiment  station  shall 
annually  analyze  or  cause  to  be  analyzed,  at  least  one  sample 
to  be  taken  in  the  manner  hereinafter  prescribed,  of  every  con¬ 
centrated  commercial  feeding  stuff  sold  or  offered  for  sale  under 
the  provisions  of  sections  1494 — 11  to  1494 — 18,  inclusive.  Said 
director  shall  cause  a  sample  to  be  taken,  not  exceeding  two 
pounds  in  weight,  for  said  analysis,  from  any  lot  or  package  of 
such  commercial  feeding  stuff  which  may  be  in  the  possession 
of  any  manufacturer,  importer,  agent  or  dealer  in  this  state  but 
said  sample  shall  be  drawn  in  the  presence  of  the  parties  in  in¬ 
terest,  or  their  representatives  and  taken  from  a  parcel  or 
number  of  packages,  which  shall  not  be  less  than  ten  per  centum 
of  the  whole  lot  sampled,  and  shall  be  thoroughly  mixed,  and 
then  divided  into  equal  samples,  and  placed  in  glass  vessels,  and 
carefully  sealed  and  a  label  placed  on  each,  stating  the  name 
of  the  party  from  whose  stock  the  sample  was  drawn  and  the 
time  and  place  of  drawing,  and  said  label  shall  also  be  signed 
by  the  person  taking  sample,  and  by  the  party  or  parties  in 
interest  or  their  representative  at  the  drawing  and  sealing  of 
said  samples;  one  of  said  duplicate  samples  shall  be  retained 
by  the  director  and  the  other  by  the  party  whose  stock  was 
sampled;  and  the  sample  or  samples  retained  by  the  director 
shall  be  for  comparison  with  the  certified  statement  named  in 
section  3  of  this  act  [1494 — 13].  The  result  of  the  analysis  of 
the  sample  or  samples  so  procured,  together  with  such  additional 
•  information  as  circumstances  advise,  shall  be  published  in  re¬ 
ports  or  bulletins  from  time  to  time. 

Penalty.  Section  1494 — 16.  Any  manufacturer,  importer 
or  person  who  shall  sell,  offer  or  expgse  for  sale  or  distribution 
in  this  state,  any  concentrated  commercial  feeding  stuff,  with¬ 
out  complying  with  the  requirements  of  sections  1494 — 11  to 
1494- — 18,  inclusive,  or  any  feeding  stuff  which  contains  substan¬ 
tially  a  smaller  percentage  of  protein  or  fat,  or  both,  than  are 
certified  to  be  contained,  shall,  on  conviction  in  a  court  of  com¬ 
petent  jurisdiction,  be  fined  not  less  than  twenty-five  nor  more 
than  one  hundred  dollars  for  the  first  offense,  and  not  more 
than  two  hundred  dollars  for  each  subsequent  offense. 

Adulteration;  sale;  false  labeling;  penalties.  Section 
1494 — 17.  Any  person  who  shall  adulterate  any  kind  of  meal  or 
ground  grain  or  other  feeding  stuff  with  milling  or  manufact- 


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tiring  offals,  or  any  other  substance  whatever,  for  the  purpose  of 
sale,  unless  the  true  composition,  mixture,  or  adulteration  there¬ 
of  is  plainly  marked  or  indicated  upon  the  package  containing 
the  same,  or  in  which  it  is  offered  for  sale ;  or  any  person  who 
sells  or  offers  for  sale  any  meal,  ground  grain  or  other  feeding 
stuff  which  has  been  so  adulterated  unless  the  true  composition, 
mixture,  or  adulteration  is  plainly  marked  or  indicated  upon 
the  package  containing  the  same,  or  in  which  it  is  offered  for 
sale ;  or  any  person  who  shall  sell  or  offer  for  sale  any  concen¬ 
trated  feeding  stuff  under  a  misleading  or  false  name  shall  be 
guilty  of  a  misdemeanor  and  shall  be  fined  not  less  than  one 
hundred  or  more  than  two  hundred  dollars  for  each  offense. 

Director’s  duties;  prosecution.  Section  1494 — 18.  Whenever 
the  director  aforesaid  becomes  cognizant  of  the  violation  of  any 
of  the  provisions  of  sections  1494 — 11  to  1494 — 18,  inclusive,  he 
shall  report  such  violations  to  the  district  attorney  for  the 
county  in  which  such  violation  has  occurred  and  said  district 
attorney  shall  prosecute  the  party  or  parties  thus  reported ;  but 
there  shall  be  no  prosecution  in  relation  to  the  quality  of  any 
concentrated  commercial  feeding  stuff  if  the  same  shall  be  found 
substantially  equivalent  to  the  certified  statement  in  section 
1494—12. 

Regulation  of  Public  Service  of  Stallions. 

Stallion  ;  registration.  Section  1494 — 31.  No  person,  firm 
or  company  shall  use  or  offer  for  use  for  public  service  in  this 
state  any  stallion  unless  and  until  he  shall  have  caused 
the  name,  description  and  pedigree  of  such  stallion  to  be 
enrolled  by  the  department  of  horse  breeding,  of  the  college  of 
agriculture,  of  the  University  of  Wisconsin,  and  shall  have  pro¬ 
cured  a  certificate  of  such  enrollment  from  said  department. 

The  word  “stallion”  wherever  used  in  this  act  shall  be  con¬ 
strued  to  include  the  word  “jack.” 

Soundness;  owner’s  oath  or  veterinarian’s  certificate. 
Section  1494 — 32.  1.  In  order  to  obtain  the  enrollment 

certificate  provided  for  in  sections  1494 — 31  to  1494 — 39,  in¬ 
clusive,  the  owner  of  each  stallion  shall  have  the  said 
stallion  examined  in  a  careful  and  thorough  manner  by 
a  legally  qualified  veterinarian  who  shall  charge  for  this  service 
a  just  and  reasonable  fee  not  in  excess  of  five  dollars  for  each 
stallion  examined,  and  shall  forward  to  the  department  of  horse 
breeding,  two  dollars  and  an  affidavit  of  soundness  signed  by  the 
said  legally  qualified  veterinarian,  on  a  blank  form  furnished  by 
said  department,  together  with  the  original  studbook  certificate  of 
registry  of  the  pedigree  of  the  said  stallion  and  any  other  neces¬ 
sary  papers  required  to  prove  his  breeding,  identity  and  owner¬ 
ship.  It  is  further  provided  that  in  cases  of  emergency  the 


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department  of  horse  breeding  is  authorized  to  grant  temporary 
certificates  of  enrollment  without  a  veterinarian’s  affidavit  upon 
receipt  of  the  owner’s  affidavit  of  soundness,  on  a  blank  form 
furnished  by  said  department.  Temporary  enrollment  certifi¬ 
cates  shall  be  valid  only  until  a  veterinary  examination  can  reas¬ 
onably  be  made. 

Diseases  disqualifying;  certificates  revoked.  2.  The  pres¬ 
ence  of  any  one  of  the  following  named  diseases  shall  disqualify 
a  stallion  or  jack  for  public  service. 

Cataract;  amaurosis  (glass  eye);  periodic  opthalmia  (moon 
blindness) . 

Laryngeal  hemiplegia  (roaring  or  whistling). 

Pulmonary  emphysema  (heaves,  broken  wind). 

Chorea  (St.  Vitus’  dance,  crampiness,  shivering,  stringhalt). 

Bone  spavin;  ringbone;  sidebone;  navicular  disease. 

Bog  spavin ;  curb,  with  curby  formation  of  hock. 

Glanders,  farcy ;  maladie  du  coit ;  urethral  gleet ;  mange ;  me¬ 
lanosis;  and  the  department  of  horse  breeding  is  hereby  author¬ 
ized  to  refuse  its  certificate  of  enrollment  to  any  stallion  or  jack 
affected  with  any  one  of  the  diseases  hereby  specified  and  to  re¬ 
voke  the  previously  issued  enrollment  certificate  of  any  stallion 
or  jack  found  on  investigation  by  the  department  to  be  so 
affected.  • 

TTnS.OTJNDNESS  ;  COMPLAINTS  AND  EXAMINERS.  SECTION  1494 — - 
32m.  When  a  specific  complaint  signed  by  three  responsible 
parties  is  made  to  the  department  of  horse  breeding  that  a  stal¬ 
lion  is  unsound  and,  on  investigation  an  examination  is  by  the 
department  deemed  necessary,  such  examination  shall  be  made 
by  a  legally  qualified  graduate  veterinarian  deputized  by  the 
department  ;  but  the  owner  of  the  stallion  shall  have  the  right 
to  employ  a  legally  qualified  and  reputable  graduate  veter¬ 
inarian  to  act  with  the  veterinarian  representing  the  department, 
and  in  case  these  two  shall  fail  to  agree  they  shall  appoint  a 
third  graduate  veterinarian  to  act  as  referee,  and  his  decision 
shall  be  final. 

Standards;  studbooks  and  signatures.  Section  1494 — 33.  1. 
The  officers  of  the  department  of  horse  breeding  of  the  said  col¬ 
lege  of  agriculture,  whose  duty  it  shall  be  to  examine  and  pass 
upon  the  merits  of  each  pedigree  submitted,  shall  use  as  their 
standard  for  action : 

(1)  The  studbooks  and  signatures  of  the  duly  authorized 
officers  of  the  following  foreign  horse  pedigree  registry  associa¬ 
tions,  societies,  or  companies,  recognized  by  the  department  of 
agriculture,  Washington,  D.  C..  in  Bureau  of  Animal  Industry, 
Order  No.  175.  November  25,  1910,  and  Amendment  No.  1  the~0- 
to,  December  30,  1910: 


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Name  of  Breed. 

Book  of  Record. 

Association,  Society  or 
Company. 

Belgian  Draft  . 

Studbook  dcs  Shevaux  de 
Trait,  Beiges. 

Societe  le  Cheval  de  Trait 
Chevalier  G.  Hyndrick,  Sec¬ 
retary,  Brussels,  Belgium. 

Clydesdale  . 

Clydesdale  Studbook . 

Clydesdale  Horse  Society  of 
the  United  Kingdom  of 
Great  Britain  and  Ireland, 
Archibald  MacNeilage,  Sec¬ 
retary,  93  Hope  St.,  Glas¬ 
gow,  Scotland. 

Fench  Draft  . 

Studbook  des  Chevaux  de 
Trait,  Francais. 

Societe  des  Agriculteurs  de 
France,  Henri  Johanet,  Sec¬ 
retary,  8  Rue  d’Athenes, 
Paris,  France. 

Hackney  . 

Hackney  Studbook  . 

Hackney  Horse  Society, 

Frank  F.  Euren,  Secretary, 
12  Hanover  Sq.,  London, 
W.,  England. 

Percheron  . 

Studbook  Percheron  de 
France. 

LaSociete  Hippeque  Percher- 
onne  de  France,  E.  Lema- 
rie,  Secretary,  Nogent-le- 
Rotrou,  France. 

Shetland  Pony  . 

Shetland  Pony  Studbook — 

Shetland  Pony  Studbook  So¬ 
ciety,  R.  W.  Walker,  Secre¬ 
tary,  3  Golden  Sq.,  Aber¬ 
deen,  Scotland. 

Shire  . 

Shire  Horse  Society  Stud¬ 
book. 

Shire  Horse  Society,  J. 
Sloughgrove,  Secretary,  12 
Hanover  Sq.,  London,  W., 
England. 

Suffolk  . 

1  Suffolk  Studbook  . 

Suffolk  Horse  Society,  Fred 
Smith,  Secretary,  Rendles- 
ham  Woodbridge,  Suffolk, 
England. 

Thoroughbred  . 

Australian  Studbook . 

General. 

W.  C.  Yuille  &  Sons,  Mel¬ 
bourne,  Aus.  Weatherby 
&  Sons,  6  Old  Burlington 
St.,  London,  W.,  England. 

Welsh  Pony  and  Cob . 

Welsh  Pony  and  Cob  Stud¬ 
book. 

The  Welsh  Pony  &  Cob  So¬ 
ciety,  John  R.  Bache,  Sec¬ 
retary,  Knighton,  Radnor¬ 
shire,  Wales. 

Belgian  Draft  . 

Clydesdale 

Hackney 

Shire 

Suffolk 

Welsh  Pony  and  Cob 

Canadian  . 

National 

Records. 

Canadian  National  Records, 
Secretary,  Ottawa,  Can¬ 
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(2)  The  studbooks  and  signatures  of  the  duly  authorized 
officers  of  the  following  American  horse  and  jack  pedigree  reg¬ 
istry  associations,  societies  or  companies,  certified  by  the  de¬ 
partment  of  agriculture,  Washington,  D.  C.,  in  Bureau  of  Ani¬ 
mal  Industry,  Order  No.  136,  June  20,  1906,  and  in  the  amend¬ 
ments  thereto : 


Name  of  Breed. 

Book  of  Record. 

By  Whom  Published. 

Arabian  . 

Studbook  of  the  Arabian 
Horse  Club  of  America. 

Arabian  Horse  Club  of 
America,  H.  K.  Bush- 
Brown,  Secretary,  New- 
burg,  N.  Y. 

Belgian  Draft  . 

American  Register  of  Belgian 
Draft  Horses. 

American  Association  of  Im¬ 
porters  and  Breeders  of 
Belgian  Draft  Horses,  J.  D. 
Connor,  Jr.,  Secretary,  Wa¬ 
bash,  Ind. 

Cleveland  Bay  . 

American  Cleveland  Bay 
Studbook. 

Cleveland  Bay  Society  of 
America,  R,  P.  Stericker, 
Secretary,  Oconomowoe, 

Wis. 

Clydesdale  . 

American  Clydesdale  . 

American  Clydesdale  Assoc> 
ation,  R.  B.  Ogilvie.  Secre¬ 
tary,  Union  Stockyards, 
Chicago,  Ill. 

French  Coach  . 

French  Coach  Studbook . 

French  Coach  Horse  Society 
of  America,  Duncan  E. 
Willett,  Secretary.  Ma*de 
Avenue  and  Harrison  St., 
Oak  Park,  Ill. 

French  Draft  . 

Draft  Horses. 

National  French  Draft  Horse 
Association  of  America, 
C.  E.  Stubbs,  Secretary, 
Fairfield,  Iowa. 

German  Coach  . 

Oldenburg. 

German.  Hanoverian,  and 
Oldenburg  Coach  Horse 
Studbook. 

German  Hanoverian  and 
Oldenburg  Coach  Horse 
Association  of  America, 
J.  Crouch,  Secretary,  La- 
Fayette,  Ind. 

Hackney  . 

American  Hackney  Studbook 

American  Hackney  Horsa  So¬ 
ciety,  Guerney  C.  Gue,  Sec¬ 
retary.  308  W.  97th  St., 
New  York. 

Jacks  and  Jennets . 

American  Jack  Stock . 

American  Breeders’  Associa¬ 
tion  of  Jacks  and  Jennets, 
.T.  W.  Jones,  Secretary, 
Columbia,  Tenn. 

Percheron  . 

Percheron  Studbook  of 
America. 

Percheron  Society  of  Amer¬ 
ica,  Wayne  Dinsmore,  Sec¬ 
retary,  Union  Stockyards, 
Chicago,  Ill. 

Shetland  Pony  . 

American  Shetland  Pony 
!  Club  Studbook. 

American  Shetland  Pony 
Club,  Miss  Julia  M.  Wade, 
Secretary,  LaFayette.  Ind. 

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Name  of  Breed. 

Book  of  Record. 

By  Whom  Published. 

Shire  . 

American  Shire  Horse  Stud- 
book. 

American  Shire  Horse  Asso¬ 
ciation,  Chas.  Burgess,  Sr., 
Secretary,  Wenona,  Ill. 

Suffolk  . . 

American  Suffolk  Horse 
Studbook. 

American  Suffolk  Horse  As 
sQciation,  Alex.  Galbraith, 
DeKalb,  Ill. 

Thoroughbred  . 

American  Studbook  . 

The  Jockey  Club,  W.  H. 
Rowe,  Registrar,  571  Fifth 
Avenue,  New  York,  N.  Y. 

Welsh  Pony  and  Cob . 

Welsh  Pony  and  Cob  Stud¬ 
book. 

The  Welsh  Pony  and  Cob 
Society  of  America,  John 
Alexander,  Secretary,  Au¬ 
rora,  Ill. 

American  Trotter  . 

American  Trotting  Register. 

American  Trotting  Register 
Association,  Win.  H. 

Knight,  Secretary,  355 

Dearborn  St.,  Chicago,  Ill. 

Morgan  . 

American  Morgan  Register.. 

American  Morgan  Register 
Association,  T.  E.  Boyce, 
Secretary,  Middlcbury,  Vt. 

Saddle  Horse  . 

American  Saddle  Horse  Reg¬ 
ister. 

American  Saddle  Horse 

Breeders’  Association,  I.  B. 
Nall,  Secretary,  Louisville. 
Ky. 

Jacks  and  Jennets . 

Standard  Jack  and  Jennet 
Registry  of  America. 

Standard  Jack  and  Jennet 
Registry  Association,  Wra. 
E.  Morton,  Secretary,  Kan¬ 
sas  City,  Mo. 

2.  The  said  department  of  horse  breeding  of  the  said  college 
of  agriculture  shall  accept  as  pure  bred  and  entitled  to  a  license 
certificate  as  such,  each  stallion  or  jack  for  which  a  pedigree 
registry  certificate  is  furnished  bearing  the  signatures  of  the 
duly  authorized  officers  of  one  of  the  above-named  American 
associations,  societies,  or  companies. 

Certificates  ;  public  posting.  Section  1494 — 34.  The  owner 
of  any  stallion  used  for  public  service  in  this  state,  shall  post  and 
keep  affixed  during  the  entire  breeding  season,  a  correct  printed 
copy  of  the  enrollment  certificate  of  such  stallion,  issued  under 
the  provisions  of  the  next  succeeding  section,  in  a  conspicuous 
place  both  within  and  upon  the  outside  of  his  home  stable  and  the 
horse  stable  or  building  of  every  other  farm  or  place  where  the 
said  stallion  is  used  for  public  service. 

Certificate  forms;  pure  bred  stallion  or  jack.  Section 
1494 — 35.  1.  The  enrollment  certificate  issued  for  a  stallion 
whose  sire  and  dam  are  of  pure  breeding  and  the  pedigree  of 
which  is  registered  in  a  studbook  recognized  by  the  department 
of  horse  breeding  shall  be  in  the  following  form : 


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101 


The  University  of  Wisconsin. 

College  of  Agriculture. 

Department  of  Horse  Breeding. 

Certificate  of  Pure  Bred  Stallion,  No . 

The  pedigree  of  the  (breed)  . ,  stallion  (name 

and  number)  . ,  owned  by . ,  P.  0. 

. ,  Co . ,  (color  and  marks)  . , 

foaled  in  the  year . ,  has  been  examined  by  the  depart¬ 

ment  of  horse  breeding  and  it  is  hereby  certified  that  the  said 
stallion  is  of  pure  breeding,  and  is  registered  in  a  studbook 
recognized  by  the  said  department. 

The  above-named  stallion  has  been  examined  by . , 

a  legally  qualified  veterinarian,  and  by  him  found  to  be  sound. 


Not  good  unless  countersigned  by 

(Signature)  (Signature) 

. >  . . » 

In  charge,  department  of  Dean  of  the  College  of  Agri¬ 
horse  breeding.  culture. 

Dated  at  Madison,  Wisconsin,  this . day  of  .... 

. ,  19.... 

Stallion  or  jack  not  pure  bred.  2.  The  enrollment  certifi¬ 


cate  issued  for  a  stallion  whose  sire  or  dam  is  not  of  pure  breed¬ 
ing  shall  be  in  the  following  form: 

The  University  of  Wisconsin. 

College  of  Agriculture. 

Department  of  Horse  Breeding. 

Certificate  of  Grade  Stallion,  No . 

The  pedigree  of  the  grade  (breed)  . ,  stallion 

(name)  . ,  owned  by . ,  P.  O . 

. ,  Co . ,  (color  and  marks)  . . 

foaled  in  the  year . ,  sire  or  dam  (name  and  number) 

. ,  has  been  examined  by  the  department 

of  horse  breeding  and  it  is  found .  that  the  said  stallion 
is  not  of  pure  breeding  and,  is  therefore,  not  eligible  for  regis¬ 
tration  in  any  studbook  recognized  by  the  said  department. 

The  above-named  stallion  has  been  examined  by . , 

a  legally  qualified  veterinarian,  and  by. him  found  to  be  sound. 
Not  good  unless  countersigned  by 

(Signature)  (Signature) 

* . >  . > 

In  charge,  department  of  Dean  of  the  College  of  Agri¬ 
horse  breeding.  culture. 

Dated  at  Madison,  Wisconsin,  this . day  of . , 

19.  ... 


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•nrs 

-  4 

Stallion  pure  bred  but  cross  bred.  3'.  The  enrollment  cer¬ 
tificate  issued  for  a  stallion  whose  sire  and  dam  are  pure  bred-, 
but  not  of  the  same  breed,  shall  be  in  the  following  form : 


The  University  of  Wisconsin. 

College  of  Agriculture. 

Department  of  Horse  Breeding. 

Certificate  of  Cross  Bred  Stallion,  No . 

The  pedigree  of  the  (breed)  . .  .,  cross  bred  stallion 

(name)  . ,  owned  by  . ,  P.  0.  . . , 

Co . ,  (color  and  marks)  . ,  foaled  in 

the  year . ,  has  been  examined  by  the  department 

of  horse  breeding  and  it  is  found  that  his  sire  is  registered  in  the 

. and  his  dam  in  the . and  the 

said  stallion  is,  therefore,  not  eligible  for  registration  in  any 
studbook  recognized  by  the  said  department. 

The  above-named  stallion  has  been  examined  by  . , 

a  legally  qualified  veterinarian,  and  by  him  found  to  be  sound. 
Not  good  unless  countersigned  by 

(Signature)  (Signature) 

. )  . .  > 

In  charge,  department  of  Dean  of  the  College  of  Agri¬ 
horse  breeding.  culture. 

Dated  at  Madison,  Wisconsin,  this . day  of . , 

19.  . . . 

Stallion  “nonstandard  bred”.  4.  The  enrollment  certifi¬ 
cate  issued  for  a  “nonstandard  bred”  stallion  shall  be  in  the 
following  form : 


The  University  of  Wisconsin. 

College  of  Agriculture. 

Department  of  Horse  Breeding. 

Certificate  of  Nonstandard  Bred  Stallion,  No . 

The  pedigree  of  the  nonstandard  (breed)  . . . , 

stallion  (name)  . ,  owned  by  . . , 

P.  () . ,  Co . ,  (color  and  marks)  . 

.........  foaled  in  the  year . ,  has  been  examined  by  the 

department  of  horse  breeding  and  it  is  found  that  the  said  stal¬ 
lion  is  not  eligible  to  registration  as  standard  bred,  and  for  the 
purposes  of  this  certificate  is  not  pure  bred,  although  recorded 
in  the  nonstandard  department  of  the  American  trotting  regis¬ 
ter. 


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The  above-named  stallion  has  been  examined  by . 

a  legally  qualified  veterinarian,  and  by  him  found  to  be  sound. 
Not  good  unless  countersigned  by 

(Signature)  (Signature) 


In  charge,  department  of  Dean  of  the  College  of  Agri¬ 
horse  breeding.  culture. 

Dated  at  Madison,  Wisconsin,  this . . day  of . , 

19.... 

License;  form.  5.  The  enrollment  certificate  for  a  stallion 
that  has  neither  sire  nor  dam  of  pure  breeding  shall  be  in  . the 
following  form : 


The  University  of  Wisconsin. 

College  of  Agriculture. 

Department  of  Horse  Breeding. 

Certificate  of  Mongrel  or  Scrub  Stallion,  No . 

The  breeding  of  the  stallion  (name)  . . ,  owned 

by . ,  P.  0 . ,  Co . ,  (color  and 

marks)  . ,  foaled  in  the  year . ,  has  been  exam¬ 

ined  by  the  department  of  horse  breeding  and  it  is  found  that 
the  said  stallion  is  of  mongrel  or  scrub  breeding  and  is  there¬ 
fore  not  eligible  for  registration  in  any  studbook  recognized  by 
the  said  department. 

The  above-named  stallion  has  been  examined  by  . . . 

a  legally  qualified  veterinarian,  and  by  him  found  to  be  sound. 

Not  good  unless  countersigned  by 

(Signature)  (Signature) 


Tn  charge,  department  of  Dean  of  the  College  of  Agri¬ 
horse  breeding.  •  culture. 

Dated  at  Madison,  Wisconsin,  this . day  of  ... :  . .  ., 

19. .  .  . 

Advertisements;  contents.  Section  1494 — 36.  Each  bill 
and  poster  issued  by  the  owner  of  any  stallion  enrolled  under 
sections  1494 — 31  to  1494 — 39,  inclusive,  or  used  by  him  or  his 
agent,  for  advertising  such  stallion  shall  contain  a  correct 
copy  of  the  stallion’s  certificate  of  enrollment  printed  in  bold¬ 
face  Roman  type  not  smaller  than  long  primer  (ten  point)  on 
said  bill  or  poster,  and  the  first  mention  thereon  of  the  name 
of  the  stallion  shall  be  preceded  by  the  words  “pure  bred,” 
“grade,”  “cross  bred,”  “nonstandard  bred,”  or  “mongrel  or 
scrub”  in  accordance  with  the  wording  of  the  certificate  of  en¬ 
rollment,  and  printed  in  type  not  smaller  than  the  largest  type 
in  which  the  name  of  the  said  stallion  shall  be  printed  on  said 
bill  or  poster  in  any  place  whatsoever;  and  it  shall  be  illegal 
to  print  upon  the  said  bill  or  poster  any  misleading  reference 


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to  the  breeding  of  the  stallion,  his  sire  or  his  dam,  or  to  use 
upon  such  ball  or  poster  or  in  any  other  advertising  matter  the 
portrait  of  a  stallion  in  a  misleading  way;  and  each  news¬ 
paper  advertisement,  post  card,  circular  letter  or  other  form 
of  advertising  of  a  stallion  for  public  service  shall  show  the 
enrollment  certificate  number  and.  state  whether  the  stallion  is 
“pure  bred,”  “grade,”  “cross  bred,”  “nonstandard  bred,” 
or  “mongrel  or  scrub.” 

License  fees;  annual  renewal.  Section  1494 — 37.  A  fee 
of  two  dollars  shall  be  paid  to  the  department  of  horse  breeding 
of  the  college  of  agriculture  of  the  University  of  Wisconsin,  for 
the  examination  and  enrollment  of  each  pedigree  and  for  the 
issuance  of  a  certificate  oT  enrollment,  in  accordance  with  the 
breeding  of  the  stallion  as  above  provided;  and  all  enrollment 
certificates  shall  expire  on  the  first  of  January  of  each  year, 
following  date  of  issuance,  and  must  be  renewed  annually  before 
the  first  of  April  following,  and  a  fee  of  fifty  cents  shall  be 
paid  to  the  department  of  horse  breeding  for  said  renewal  of 
certificates.  All  fees  received  under  this  section  or  section 
1494 — 38  shall  be  paid  within  one  week  of  receipt  into  the  uni¬ 
versity  fund  income  of  the  state  treasury. 

Certificates  ;  transfer  and  duplication.  Section  1494 — 38. 
Upon  a  transfer  of  the  ownership  of  any  stallion  or  jack  en¬ 
rolled  under  the  provisions  of  sections  1494 — 31  to  1494 — 39, 
inclusive,  the  certificate  of  enrollment  may  be  transferred  to  the 
transferee  by  the  department  of  horse  breeding  of  the  college  of 
agriculture  upon  submittal  of  satisfactory  proof  of  such  trans¬ 
fer  and  upon  payment  of  the  fee  of  fifty  cents;  and  a  fee  of 
fifty  cents  shall  be  paid  for  a  duplicate  license  certificate  issued 
where  proof  is  given  of  loss  or  destruction  of  the  original  cer¬ 
tificate.  1 

Horse  breeding  department;  annual  accounting.  Section 
1494 — 38m.  The  department  of  horse  breeding  shall  keep  an 
account  of  all  moneys  received  and  disbursed  and  shall  make 
an  annual  report  thereof ;  said  report  shall  be  published  with 
and  as  a  part  of  the  annual  report  of  the  agricultural  experi¬ 
ment  station,  college  of  agriculture. 

Penalty.  Section  1494 — 39.  Violation  of  any  of  the  pro¬ 
visions  of  sections  1494 — 31  to  1494 — 39,  inclusive,  is  hereby 
made  a  misdemeanor  and  shall  be  punished  by  a  fine  not  less 
than  ten  dollars  nor  more  than  fifty  dollars  or  by  imprisonment 
in  the  county  jail  not  more  than  sixty  days  or  by  both  such 
fine  and  imprisonment ;  and  it  is  hereby  made  the  duty  of  the 
district  attorney  of  the  county  in  which  the  violation  takes 
place  to  prosecute  the  action. 


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105 


Sale  of  Liquor  Forbidden  Within  Certain  Distance  from 
University  Hall. 

(From  Chapter  G6.) 

Liquor  license;  university.  Section  1548 — 7.  #  *  * 

Nor  shall  any  license  he  granted  for  the  sale  of  any  such  liquors 
to  be  drank  on.  the  premises  within  a  distance  of  thred  thou¬ 
sand  two  hundred  feet  of  the  main  building  of  any  state  uni¬ 
versity  ;  #  #  #  . 


Colleges  of  State  May  be  made  Branches  of  University. 

(From  Chapter  86.) 

Universities  and  colleges  empowered  to  unite.  Section* 
1784m.  Any  university  or  college  whether  organized  under  this 
chapter,  or  otherwise,  may  receive  in  connection  with  it  any 
other  university  or  college  upon  resolution  of  the  board  of 
trustees  of  the  said  institutions  and  such  university  or  college 
so  received  shall  become  a  branch  of  the  university  or  college 
so  receiving  it  and  shall  be  subject  to  such  rules,  regulations, 
agreements  and  liabilities  as  may  be  agreed  by  the  respective 
trustees  of  said  college.  Any  such  university  or  college  so  re¬ 
ceiving  any  other  university  or  college  may  grant  such  diplomas 
and  confer  such  degrees  as  shall  be  appropriate  to  courses  of 
instruction  prescribed  and  pursued  in  such  received  university 
or  college,  and  any  such  university  or  college  so  received  may 
upon  such  terms  as  shall  be  agreed  to  by  its  stockholders  and 
trustees  sell  or  give  an  option  of  purchase  of  all  its  property, 
business  and  effects  to  such  receiving  college  or  university. 


Admission  of  Graduates  of  Law  School  to  Supreme  Court. 

(From  Chapter  117.) 

Who  admitted  to  practice;  board  of  examiners.  Section 
2586.  .No  person  shall  be  admitted  or  licensed  to  practice  as  an 
attorney  of  any  court  of  record  except  in  the  manner  following: 

(1)  Any  resident  graduate  of  the  law  department  of  the 
University  of  Wisconsin  shall  be  admitted  to  practice  in  all  the 
courts  of  this  state  by  the  supreme  court  upon  the  production 
of  his  diploma,  and  may  be  so  admitted  when  such  court  is 
not  in  session,  by  one  of  the  justices  thereof  upon  the  produc¬ 
tion  of  such  diploma,  by  an  order  signed  by  such  justice  at  d 
filed  with  the  clerk  of  said  court. 


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Offenses  Against  Public  Policy. 

(From  Chapter  185.) 

Official  Malfeasance. 

Public  officers  ;  malfeasance  ;  penalty.  Section  4549. 
Any  officer,  agent  or  clerk  of  the  state  or  of  any  comity,  town, 
school  district,  school  board,  city  or  village  therein,  or  in  the 
employment  thereof,  or  any  officer,  regent,  treasurer,  secretary, 
superintendent,  clerk  or  agent  of  any  penal,  correctional,  edu¬ 
cational  or  charitable  institution  instituted  by  or  in  pursuance 
of  law  within  this  state,  or  any  member  of  any  body  or  board 
having  charge  or  supervision  of  such  institution  who  shall  have, 
reserve  or  acquire  any  pecuniary  interest,  directly  or  indi¬ 
rectly,  present  or  prospective,  absolute  or  conditional,  in  any 
way  or  manner,  in  any  purchase  or  sale  of  any  personal  or 
real  property  or  thing  in  action,  or  in  any  contract,  proposal 
or  bid  in  relation  to  the  same,  or  in  relation  to  any  public  ser¬ 
vice,  or  in  any  tax  sale,  tax  title,  bill  of  sale,  deed,  mortgage, 
certificate,  account,  order,  warrant  or  receipt  made  by,  to  or 
with  him  in  his  official  capacity  or  employment,  or  in  any 
public  or  official  service,  or  who  shall  make  any  contract  or 
pledge,  or  contract  any  indebtedness  or  liability,  or  do  any  other 
act  in  his  official  capacity  or  in  any  public  or  official  service 
not  authorized  or  required  by  law,  or  who  shall  make  any  false 
statement,  certificate,  report,  return  or  entry  in  any  book  of 
accounts  or  of  records  in  respect  to  anything  done  or  required 
to  be  done  by  him  officially,  or  in  any  public  or  official  service, 
or  who  shall  ask,  demand  or  exact  for  the  performance  of  any 
service  or  duty  imposed  upon  him  by  law  any  greater  fee  than 
is  allowed  by  law  for  the  performance  of  such  service  or  duty, 
shall  be  punished  by  imprisonment  in  the  county  jail  not  more 
than  five  years  or  by  fine  not  exceeding  five  hundred  dollars. 

Grafting.  Section  4549g.  Except  as  specifically  author¬ 
ized  by  statute,  no  officer  or  employe  of  the  state  shall,  directly 
or  indirectly,  receive  or  accept  any  sum  of  money,  or  anything 
of  value,  for  the  furnishing  of  any  information,  or  perform¬ 
ance  of  any  service  whatever  relating  in  any  manner  to  the 
duties  of  such  officer  or  employe.  Any  person  violating  this 
section  shall  lie  punished  by  a  fine  of  not  less  than  twenty-five 
dollars  nor  more  than  one  thousand  dollars,  or  more  than  six 
months’  imprisonment  in  the  county  jail,  or  by  both  such  fine 
and  imprisonment. 


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107 


LAWS  OF  WISCONSIN. 


Camp  Randall  Memorial  Park. 


No.  21,  A.] 


[Published  March  28,  1913. 


(Chapter  28,  Laws  of  1913.) 


AN  ACT,  To  amend  section  2  of  chapter  567,  laws  of  1911,  re¬ 
lating  to  memorial  park. 

The  people  of  the  State  of  Wisconsin,  represented  in  Senate 
and  Assembly,  do  enact  as  follows : 

Section  1.  Section  2  of  chapter  567,  laws  of  1911,  is  amended 
to  read:  (Chapter  567,  laws  of  1911)  Section  2.  It  shall  be  the 
duty  of,  and  said  commission  is  authorized  to  set  aside  a  portion 
of  Camp  Randall  to  be  used  as  a  memorial  park.  Such  park 
shall  include  a  portion  of  Camp  Randall  described  as  follows: 
Commencing  on  the  west  line  of  Warren  street  96.6  feet  north 
of  the  center  of  Dayton  street  produced ;  thence  west  at  right 
angles  to  Warren  street  462  feet;  thence  south  812.1  feet  to  the 
north  line  of  Monroe  street;  thence  north  50  degrees  14  minutes 
along  the  north  line  of  Monroe  street  601  feet  to  the  west  line  of 
Warren  street;  thence  north  along  the  west  line  of  Warren 
street  429  feet  to  the  place  of  beginning,  containing  6.58  acres. 
The  use  of  such  park  for  military  drill  and  athletic  purposes 
shall  be  allowed  to  the  university. 

Section  2.  This  act  shall  take  effect  and  be  in  force  from  and 
after  its  passage  and  publication. 

Approved  March  27,  1913. 


Eradication  of  White  Grub  and  Grasshopper  Pests. 


[Published  July  31,  1913. 


(Chapter  708,  Laws  of  1913.) 


AN  ACT  appropriating  a  sum  of  money  therein  named  for 
alleviating  and  preventing  injury  to  agricultural  crops  by 
the  white  grub  and  grasshopper  pests. 

The  people  of  the  State  of  Wisconsin,  represented  in  Senate  and 
Assembly,  do  enact  as  follows: 

Section  1.  There  is  appropriated  out  of  any  moneys  in  the 
state  treasury  not  otherwise  appropriated  the  sum  of  three 


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thousand  dollars,  said  sum  to  be  expended  by  and  under  the 
supervision  of  the  state  orchard  and  nursery  inspector  for  the 
alleviation  and  prevention  of  injuries  to  agricultural  crops  in 
the  state  by  the  white  grub  and  grasshopper  pests. 

Section  2.  This  act  shall  take  effect  upon  passage  and  publi¬ 
cation. 

Approved  July  30,  1913, 


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CHAPTER  I. 


Meetings  and  Business  of  the  Regents 


ANNUAL  MEETINGS 

Section  1.  The  annual  meetings  of  the  Regents  of  The  Uni¬ 
versity  of  Wisconsin  shall  be  held,  unless  otherwise  specially 
ordered,  on  the  Tuesday  before  the  annual  Commencement,  at 
10  a.  m.  _ 


REGULAR  MEETINGS 

Section  2.  There  shall  be  six  regular  meetings  of  the  Board 
each  fiscal  year,  in  addition  to  the  annual  meeting,  to  be  held 
as  follows,  unless  otherwise  specially  ordered : 

Second  Wednesday  in  October,  first  Wednesday  in  December, 
third  Wednesday  in  January,  first  Wednesday  in  March, 
fourth  Wednesday  in  April,  first  Wednesday  in  August,  at  ten 
o’clock  in  the  morning  of  said  days. 


SPECIAL  MEETINGS 

Section  3.  A  special  meeting  of  the  Regents  of  The  Uni¬ 
versity  of  Wisconsin  may  be  called  at  any  time,  upon  the  writ¬ 
ten  request  of  at  least  three  members  of  the  Board,  or  by 
two-thirds  of  the  members  of  the  Executive  Committtee. 
In  either  case  the  request  shall  be  signed  by  them,  filed, 
and  recorded  on  the  records  of  the  Board;  and  the  notice  call¬ 
ing  any  special  meeting  of  the  Board  shall  be  served  by  the 
Secretary  on  each  member  of  the  Board  in  writing,  by  depos¬ 
iting  the  same  in  the  postoffice  or  telegraph  office  at  Madison, 
or  by  personal  service,  at  least  five  days  before  the  time  of 
meeting. 


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PLACE  OF  MEETINGS 

Section  4.  All  meetings  of  the  Board  shall  be  held,  unless 
otherwise  ordered,  at  the  office  of  the  Regents. 

PARLIAMENTARY  RULES 

Section  5.  General  parliamentary  rules,  as  modified  by 
rules  and  regulations  of  the  Board,  shall  be  observed  in  con¬ 
ducting  the  business  of  the  Board  in  session.  A  majority  of 
the  members  of  the  Board  shall  constitute  a  quorum. 

ORDER  OF  BUSINESS 

Section  6.  The  order  of  business  at  all  meetings  shall  be 
as  follows: 

1.  Calling  of  the  roll. 

2.  Reading  of  the  minutes  of  the  proceedings  of  the  last  meet¬ 
ing;  amendment  or  approval  of  the  same. 

3.  Election  of  officers. 

4.  Report. of  the  President  of  the  University. 

5.  Reports  of  standing  committees. 

G.  Reports  of  special  committees. 

7.  Reports  of  the  Business  Manager  and  Secretary. 

8.  Communications,  petitions,  and  memorials. 

9.  Unfinished  and  miscellaneous  business. 


CHAPTER  II. 

Officers  of  the  Board  and  Their  Duties 

Section  1.  The  officers  of  the  Board  shall  consist  of  a  pres¬ 
ident,  a  vice  president,  a  business  manager,  and  a  secretary. 
(The  State  Treasurer  is  ex-officio  the  Treasurer  of  the  Board.) 

MODE  OF  ELECTION 

Section  2.  The  President,  Vice-President,  Business  Mana¬ 
ger,  and  Secretary  of  the  Board  shall  be  elected  by  ballot  at 
the  annual  meeting,  and  shall  hold  their  respective  offices  for 
one  year  and  until  their  successors  shall  be  elected  and  have 
qualified. 


DUTIES  OF  THE  REGENTS 

Section  3.  So  far  as  each  regent’s  time  will  permit,  it  is 
hereby  declared  to  be  his  duty  to  keep  in  touch  with  and  in- 


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formed  as  to  the  work  of  the  University,  in  its  several  de¬ 
partments,  schools,  colleges  and  activities,  both  educational 
and  business,  and  in  the  performance  of  such  duty,  each 
regent  shall  make  reasonably  frequent  visits  to  Madison, 
and  such  other  places  as  he  may  deem  advisable,  and  shall 
make  reasonable  use  of  the  telegraph,  the  long  distance  telephone, 
and  the  mails. 

DUTIES  OF  THE  PRESIDENT  OF  THE  BOARD 

Section  4.  The  President  shall  preside  at  all  meetings,  and 
shall  discharge  the  ordinary  duties  of  such  officer  in  pursuance 
of  parliamentary  law.  He  shall  sign'  all  diplomas  and,  with  the 
Secretary  countersigning,  shall  sign  all  contracts  and  instru¬ 
ments  authorized  or  issued  by  authority  of  the  Board. 

DUTIES  OF  THE  VICE-PRESIDENT 

Section  5.  The  Vice-President  shall,  in  the  absence  of  the 
President,  perform  all  the  duties  of  the  President. 

DUTIES  OF  THE  PRESIDENT  PRO  TEM 

Section  6.  In  the  absence  of  the  President  and  Vice-Presi¬ 
dent,  the  Board  may  appoint  a  President,  pro  tem,  who  shall 
perform  the  duties  of  presiding  officer  of  the  Board. 

DUTIES  OF  THE  BUSINESS  MANAGER 

Section  7.  The  Business  Manager  shall  be  responsible  to 
the  Board  of  Regents  through  the  Executive  Committee  and  the 
President  of  the  University  and  shall  report  directly  to  the  board 
at  each  meeting.  He  shall  be  the  executive  head  of  those  offi¬ 
cers  and  employees  of  the  University  that  are  not  attached  to 
the  instructional  force. 

He  shall  see  that  the  laws,  rules,  and  regulations  prescribed 
by  the  Board  of  Regents  for  the  government  of  the  business 
affairs  of  the  University  are  faithfully  observed.  He  shall  have 
authority,  subject  to  the  regulations  and  directions  of  the  Board 
of  Regents,  to  supervise  business  affairs  of  the  University,  both 
at  Madison  and  at  other  University  centers  throughout  the  state. 

The  offices  of  administration  shall  be  open  from  8 :30  A.  M. 
to  5  :00  P.  M. 

DUTIES  OF  THE  SECRETARY 

Section  8.  The  Secretary,  except  in  the  performance  of 
his  functions  as  Secretary  of  the  Board,  shall  act  under  the 
direction  of  the  Business  Manager,  to  whom  he  shall  be  imme¬ 
diately  responsible  for  the  conduct  of  affairs  in  the  offices  of 


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the  Bursar  and  of  the  Accountant.  He  shall  devote  his  full 
time  to  the  faithful  performance  of  his  duties.  The  Secretary 
of  the  Board  shall  give  a  bond  of  $10,000  to  the  Regents  by 
their  corporate  title,  with  such  sureties  as  shall  be  approved  by 
the  Board,  conditioned  for  the  faithful  performance  of  all  the 
duties  of  his  office  and  the  due  payment  as  required  by  law  or 
the  Regents  of  all  moneys  which  shall  come  to  his  hands.  At 
the  annual  meeting  of  the  Regents  in  June,  the  Secretary  shall 
lay  before  the  Board  a  statement  of  the  condition  of  the  sure¬ 
ties  to  his  bond  and  shall  give  a  new  bond  when  required  by  the 
Board.  It  shall  be  competent  for  the  Board  to  authorize  the 
Secretary  to  give  as  sureties  to  his  bond  the  responsibility  of 
some  reliable  surety  company,  and  to  cause  the  expense  of  the 
same  to  be  charged  to  the  Regents. 

It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  Secretary  to  give  at  least  ten  days’ 
notice  of  the  regular  meetings  of  the  Board,  to  keep  a  record 
of  the  proceedings  of  the  Board  at  their  several  meetings,  to 
keep  a  separate  record  of  the  proceedings  of  the  Executive  Com¬ 
mittee,  and  a  record  of  the  proceedings  of  each  of  the  standing 
committees,  whensoever  requested  thereto  by  the  Chairman;  to 
Keep  the  common  seal  and  by  countersigning  execute  with  the 
President  all  instruments  and  contracts,  ordered  by  the  Board; 
and  to  preserve  all  documents  pertaining  to  his  office. 

The  Secretary  shall,  as  soon  as  practicable  after  the  record 
of  proceedings  of  meetings  have  been  perfected,  transmit,  by 
mail,  to  each  regent,  a  copy  of  the  record  of  the  meetings  of  the 
Board  and  of  the  committees  thereof;  and  he  shall  transmit  to 
individual  members  of  the  instructional  force  a  written  notice  of 
the  action  taken  by  the  Board  in  relation  to  their  appointment, 
reappointments,  or  duties,  and  in  relation  to  their  departments. 

The  Secretary  shall  keep  a  separate  and  distinct  account  of 
each  University  fund,  showing  the  true  condition  thereof,  and 
the  balance  of  each  in  his  hands  or  held  by  the  State  Treasurer 
at  all  times. 

The  several  items  of  expenditure  of  the  University  Fund  In¬ 
come  shall  be  classified  on  the  books  of  the  Secretary. 

The  Secretary  shall  keep  on  record  and  file  the  resolutions, 
requisitions,  accounts  and  other  papers  authorizing  the  issuing 
of  warrants,  and  the  same  shall  be  kept  exclusively  as  the  prop¬ 
erty,  and  for  the  sole  use  and  benefit,  of  the  Regents  and  officers 
of  the  University,  and  shall  clearly  show,  under  their  proper 
heads,  all  receipts  and  expenditures  of  the  different  funds  of 
the  University. 

The  Secretary  shall  keep  a  book  in  which  shall  be  entered  a 
minute. of  each  voucher,  specifying  the  number,  the  date,  the 
payee,  and  the  amount,  and  a  clear  reference  to  the  authority 
for  its  issue. 

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the  Secretary  shall  lay  before  the  Board  a  complete  statement 
showing  the  receipts  and  disbursements  during  the  preceding 
quarter;  the  net  total  amount  of  money  derived  to  the  Univer¬ 
sity  from  each  fund;  the  balance  remaining  at  the  end  of  such 
quarter  for  each  fund  in  his  hands  or  lying  with  the  State 
Treasurer. 

In  the  absence  of  the  Business  Manager,  and  unless  otherwise 
instructed,  the  Secretary  shall  perform  the  duties  of  the  Busi¬ 
ness  Manager. 


OTHER  OFFICERS  AND  EMPLOYES 

Section  9.  The  positions  of  bursar,  accountant,  purchasing 
agent,  requisition  clerk,  architect,  engineer  of  construction, 
consulting  engineer,  consulting  electrical  engineer,  superintend¬ 
ent  of  buildings  and  grounds,  general  operating  engineer,  gen¬ 
eral  electrician,  storekeeper,  steward,  photographer,  and  editor 
are  hereby  created  and  their  respective  duties  shall  be  defined 
as  follows: 


(1)  DUTIES  OF  THE  BURSAR 

The  Bursar  shall  devote  his  full  time  to  the  faithful  perform¬ 
ance  of  his  duties.  The  Bursar  shall  give  a  bond  of  $30,000  to 
the  Regents  by  their  corporate  title,  with  such  sureties  as  shall 
be  approved  by  the  Board,  conditioned  for  the  faithful  perform¬ 
ance  of  all  the  duties  of  his  office  and  the  due  payment  as  re¬ 
quired  by  law  or  the  Regents  of  all  moneys  which  shall  come  to 
his  hands.  It  shall  be  competent  for  the  Board  to  authorize  the 
Bursar  to  give  as  sureties  to  his  bond  the  responsibility  of  some 
reliable  surety  company,  and  to  cause  the  expense  of  the  same 
to  be  charged  to  the  Regents. 

The  Bursar  is  authorized  to  receive  payments  of  all  moneys 
arising  from  gifts  or  bounties  in  any  form  to  the  University,  or 
for  its  benefit ;  from  all  fees  of  students,  or  others ;  from 
all  sales  of  farm  products,  or  any  articles  of  personal  property  of 
whatever  nature  or  kind ;  from  publications  or  advertisements  in 
publications  of  the  University ;  from  fees  for  service  rendered  in 
any  manner ;  from  sales  or  rents  of  real  property ;  and  from  any 
source  whatever  other  than  in  cases  by  law  required  to  be  paid  to 
the  State  Treasurer. 

All  deposits  made  by  students  or  others  on  account  of  labora¬ 
tory  supplies,  for  use  of  the  library,  repairs  or  fines  on  books,  to 
secure  return  of  locker  keys  at  the  gymnasium  and  other  keys, 
and  for  any  and  every  purpose  of  like  nature  shall  be  paid  by  the 
depositor  to  the  Bursar  and  shall  be  held  by  him  for  safe  keep¬ 
ing  and  proper  disposition.  He  shall  keep  a  true  account  sepa¬ 
rately  with  each  depositor,  and  shall  repay  to  each  depositor 
upon  the  proper  evidence,  the  balance  of  the  deposit,  according 


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to  established  usage  and  regulations,  whenever  the  same  may  be¬ 
come  repayable. 

The  Bursar  shall  at  least  as  often  as  once  a  week  pay  into  the 
state  treasury  the  entire  amount  of  such  receipts  by  him,  and 
shall  on  or  before  the  tenth  day  of  each  calendar  month  deliver 
to  the  state  treasurer  an  itemized  account,  certified  by  the  Sec¬ 
retary,  of  such  receipts  during  the  preceding  calendar  month, 
showing  the  amount  of  each  sum  so  received  by  him,  the  date 
thereof,  the  person  from  whom  received^  for  what  received,  and 
the  particular  fund  or  account  to  which  the  same  belongs;  save 
that  the  details  of  small  receipts  may  be  omitted  and  the  ac¬ 
counts  made  summary  in  such  cases  and  to  such  extent,  as  the 
Secretary  of  State  shall  prescribe  by  forms  therefor;  and 
shall  verify  the  correctness  thereof  by  his  affidavit  thereto  ap¬ 
pended  ;  and  a  duplicate  thereof  he  shall  at  the  same  time  file 
with  the  Secretary  of  State.  Such  account  shall  be  made  upon 
forms  to  be  prepared  and  furnished  by  the  Secretary  of  State. 

(2)  DUTIES  OF  THE  ACCOUNTANT 

The  Accountant  shall  keep  the  time  sheets,  prepare  all  in¬ 
voices  and  bills  for  the  approval  of  the  Regents  and  for  pay¬ 
ment  by  the  State  Treasurer.  He  shall  be  the  custodian  of  all 
vouchers.  He  shall  see  that  vouchers  and  other  accounting 
documents  are  properly  filed  and  recorded  and  that  expendi¬ 
tures,  in  their  respective  (-lasses,  are  charged  against  the  proper 
University  divisions  and  departments. 

(3)  DUTIES  OF  THE  PURCHASING  AGENT 

The  Purchasing  Agent  shall  be  responsible  for  the  prompt, 
orderly,  and  efficient  purchase  of  supplies.  He  shall  keep  well 
informed  in  regard  to  current  prices  and  place  his  orders  with 
the  sole  purpose  of  serving  the  best  interests  of  the  University. 
He  shall  report  promptly  any  effort  that  may  be  made  to  secure 
University  patronage  through  questionable  methods. 

(4-)  DUTIES  OF  THE  REQUISITION  CLERK 

The  Requisition  Clerk  shall  examine  all  University  requisi¬ 
tions,  certify  their  validity  to  the  Business  Manager,  and  keep 
a  record  of  all  departmental  allowances  and  drafts  thereon,  and 
assist  the  Business  Manager  in  the  gathering  of  statistical  in¬ 
formation  and  in  the  preparation  of  reports.  He  shall  be  re¬ 
sponsible  for  the  general  conduct  of  the  affairs  of  his  office. 

(5)  DUTIES  OF  THE  ARCHITECT 

Under  the  direction  of  the  Business  Manager,  the  Architect 
shall  prepare  designs,  studies,,  plans,  drawings,  and  specifica- 


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tions  and  shall  perform  such  other  duties  as  the  Board  may 
from  time  to  time  direct.  He  shall  be  responsible  for  the  gen¬ 
eral  conduct  of  the  affairs  of  his  office  and  keep  a  daily  record. 

(6)  DUTIES  OF  THE  ENGINEER  OF  CONSTRUCTION 

The  Engineer  of  Construction  shall  supervise  the  construction 
of  work  at  the  University  and  regularly  report  thereupon  to  the 
Business  Manager. 

(7)  DUTIES  OF  THE  CONSULTING  ENGINEER 

The  Consulting  Engineer  shall  have  the  heating,  lighting, 
power,  and  ventilating  systems  of  the  University  under  constant 
survey  and  shall  take  the  initiative  in  recommending  such  altera¬ 
tions  and  additions  as  will  tend  to  increase  efficiency.  He  shall 
pass  upon  the  constructional  details  of  all  new  buildings  so  far 
as  he  may  be  recpiested  so  to  do  by  the  Business  Manager  and 
shall  pay  particular  attention  to  questions  of  ventilation  and 
sanitation. 

(8)  DUTIES  OF  THE  CONSULTING  ELECTRICAL  ENGINEER 

The  Consulting  Electrical  Engineer,  acting  in  co-operation 
with  the  Consulting  Engineer  shall  be  responsible  for  the  opera¬ 
tion  of  the  Electrical  Sub-station,  the  distribution  system,  and 
for  electrical  service  generally.  He  shall  take  the  initiative  in 
recommending  such  changes  in  the  methods  of  operation  and 
such  alterations  and  additions  to  the  electrical  equipment  as  will 
tend  to  increase  efficiency.  He  shall  pass  upon  the  electrical  in¬ 
stallation  of  all  new  buildings  and  confer  with  the  Business 
Manager  and  with  the  Architect  in  regard  to  constructional  de¬ 
tails. 

(9)  DUTIES  OF  THE  SUPERINTENDENT  OF  BUILDINGS  AND  GROUNDS 

The  Superintendent  of  Buildings  and  Grounds  shall  have 
charge  of  all  buildings  and  of  all  University  grounds  located  at 
Madison,  except  those  under  the  immediate  control  of  the  Dean 
of  the  College  of  Agriculture,  and  shall  be  responsible  for  the 
operation  of  the  emergency  office. 

His  assistants  shall  be  as  follows:  The  carpenter  and  force, 
the  painter  and  force,  the  plumber  and  force,  the  mason  and 
force,  the  campus  foreman  and  force,  the  janitors,  the  watch¬ 
men,  the  drivers  and  draymen,  the  mail  clerk. 

(10)  DUTIES  OF  THE  CHIEF  OPERATING  ENGINEER 

The  Chief  Operating  Engineer  shall  have  charge  of  the  Cen¬ 
tral  Heating  Station  and  the  distribution  system  for  heat  and 


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steam  power.  He  shall  be  responsible  for  the  efficient  oper¬ 
ation  of  the  entire  heating  plant.  He  shall  feel  free  to  recom¬ 
mend  improvements  and  shall  direct  and  supervise  new  construc¬ 
tion  as  he  may  be  instructed. 

(11)  DUTIES  OF  THE  CHIEF  ELECTRICIAN 

The  Chief  Electrician  shall  have  charge  of  and  shall  operate 
the  electrical  sub-station  and  the  distribution  system,  and  shall 
be  responsible  for  the  efficient  operation  of  the  electrical  plant. 

(12)  DUTIES  OF  THE  STOREKEEPER 

The  Storekeeper  shall  be  responsible  for  all  goods  entrusted 
to  him  and  shall  keep  a  full  inventory  thereof  and  complete  and 
classified  lists  of  his  deliveries. 

(13)  DUTIES  OF  THE  STEWARD 

The  University  Steward  shall  be  responsible  for  the  manage¬ 
ment  of  the  University  commons  and  shall  be  the  custodian  of 
all  properties  connected  therewith. 

(14)  DUTIES  OF  TIIE  PHOTOGRAPHER 

The  University  Photographer  shall  have  charge  of  all  photo¬ 
graphic  instruments,  apparatus,  negatives,  etc.,  belonging  to  the 
University  at  large,  and  shall  be  responsible  for  the  efficient 
operation  of  the  photographic  laboratory  and  shall  fill  all  Uni¬ 
versity  orders  for  photographic  work  that  have  been  duly  author¬ 
ized  and  shall  keep  and  apportion  the  cost  thereof  in  such  man¬ 
ner  as  directed  by  the  Business  Manager.  lie  shall  be  the  cus¬ 
todian  of  all  University  steropticons  and  projection  apparatus; 
and  he,  or  his  assistants,  shall  act  as  responsible  operators  there¬ 
of,  unless  otherwise  directed. 

(15)  DUTIES  OF  THE  EDITOR 

The  University  Editor  shall  be  responsible  for  the  execution 
of  all  printing  orders  and  shall  act  as  the  intermediary  between 
the  University  and  the  office  of  the  State  Printer  unless  otherwise 
directed. 

Section  10.  The  officers,  business  officers,  and  employes  shall 
perform  such  other  duties  as  may  from  time  to  time  be  assigned 
to  them  by  the  Board. 


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/!•  ;-"r  CHAPTER  III. 

Committees  of  tiie  Board  and  their  Duties. 

Section  -1.  There  shall  be  the  following  standing  committees 
of  the  Board  of  Regents,  who  shall  be  appointed  by  the  Presi¬ 
dent  of  the  Board,  and  shall  be  designated  as  follows,  to-wit: 
the  Executive  Committee,  consisting  of  three  regents;  the  Fi¬ 
nance  Committee,  consisting  of  five  regents,  two  of  whom  shall 
be  appointed  members  of  the  Executive  Committee ;  the  Com¬ 
mittee  on  the  College  of  Letters  and  Science,  consisting  of  five 
regents;  the  Committee  on  the  College  of  Agriculture,  consist¬ 
ing  of  five  regents ;  the  Committee  on  the  College  of  Engineering, 
consisting  of  three  regients;  the  Committee  on  the  Law  School, 
Consisting  of  three  regents ;  the  Committee  on  the  School  of 
Medicine,  consisting  of  three  regents ;  the  Committee  on  Uni¬ 
versity  Extension,  consisting  of  five  regents;  the  Committee  on 
Summer  Session,  consisting  of  three  regents;  the  Committee  on 
the  Departments  of  Physical  Education  and  Military  Science, 
consisting  of  three  regents;  the  Committee  on  Women’s  Affairs, 
consisting  of  three  regents;  the  Committee  on  Constructional 
Development,  consisting  of  five  regents;  the  Committee  on  Trust 
Funds,  consisting  of  three  regents;  and  the  Committee  on  By¬ 
laws  and  Laws,  consisting  of  three  regents.  The  President  of 
the  University  is  ex-officio  a  member  of  all  standing  committees 
but  he  has  the  right  to  vote  only  in  case  of  a  tie  vote  of  the  other 
members  present.  The  Business  Manager  shall  sit  with  commit¬ 
tees  in  an  advisory  capacity,  whenever  requested  to  do  so.  A 
majority  of  the  members  of  each  committee,  exclusive  of  the 
President  of  the  University,  shall  constitute  a  quorum. 

Meetings  oi  committees  may  be  called  by  the  chairman,  or  by 
the  Secretary  of  the  Board  upon  the  request  of  two  members,  or 
upon  the  request  of  the  President  of  the  University. 

duties  of  the  executive  committee 

Section  2.  The  Executive  Committee  shall,  when  the  Board 
is  not  in  session,  provide  for  the  execution  of  orders  and  resolu¬ 
tions  not  otherwise  specially  committed  or  provided  for,  audit 
accounts,  have  charge  of  the  repair  and  improvement  of  the 
buildings  and  grounds,  may  fill  vacancies  in  the  faculties  hap¬ 
pening  during  recess,  except  permanent  appointments,  and  gen¬ 
erally  have  the  care  and  direction  of  matters  pertaining  to  the 
welfare  of  the  University,  and  specially  discharge  all  such  other 
duties  as  the  Board  may  from  time  to  time  assign  to  them.  A 
separate  record  of  this  committee  shall  be  kept  by  the  Secre- 


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tary,  and  the  same  shall  be  submitted  to  the  Board  for  approval. 
The  committee  shall  have  stated  meetings  and  special  meetings 
as  often  as  the  interests  of  the  University  require.  Special  meet¬ 
ings  may  be  called  by  the  chairman  thereof.  A  majority  of 
the  appointed  members  shall  constitute  a  quorum. 

DUTIES  OF  THE  FINANCE  COMMITTEE 

Section  3.  The  Finance  Committee  shall  have  general  con¬ 
trol  of  the  finances  of  the  University.  This  committee  shall  re¬ 
vise  and  approve  the  annual  budget  prepared  by  the  President 
of  the  University,  and  when  so  approved,  direct  the  Secretary 
to  send  a  copy  to  each  Regent  at  least  ten  days  before  the  April 
meeting. 

DUTIES  OF  THE  COMMITTEES  ON  COLLEGE  OF  LETTERS  AND  SCIENCE, 
COLLEGE  OF  AGRICULTURE,  COLLEGE  OF  ENGINEERING,  LAWl 
SCHOOL,  SCHOOL  OF  MEDICINE,  UNIVERSITY  EXTENSION,  SUM¬ 
MER  SESSION,  AND  PHYSICAL  EDUCATION  AND  MILITARY  SCIENCE 

Section  4.  The  Committees  on  the  College  of  Letters  and 
Science,  the  College  of  Agriculture,  the  College  of  Engineering, 
the  Law  School,  the  Medical  School,  the  University  Extension  Di¬ 
vision,  the  Summer  Session,  and  Physical  Education  and  Mili¬ 
tary  Science,  under  the  direction  of  the  Board,  shall  have  super¬ 
vision  of  matters  pertaining  to  their  respective  college,  school, 
division,  or  department.  The  supervision  of  the  Washburn 
Observatory  is  assigned  to  the  Committee  on  the  College  of 
Letters  and  Science. 


DUTIES  OF  THE  COMMITTEE  ON  WOMEN’S  AFFAIRS 

Section  5.  The  Committee  on  Women’s  Affairs,  under  the 
direction  of  the  Board,  shall  have  supervision  of  matters  per¬ 
taining  exclusively  to  women. 

DUTIES  OF  TI1E  COMMITTEE  ON  CONSTRUCTIONAL  DEVELOPMENT 

Section  6.  The  Committee  on  Constructional  Development 
shall  have  supervision  of  matters  relating  to  the  general  plans 
of  constructional  development  adopted  by  the  Board.  This  com¬ 
mittee  shall  consider  all  requests  for  new  buildings  and  report 
to  the  Board  upon  the  needs  therefor  and  suggest  the  methods 
of  best  meeting  these  needs.  The  Board  of  Regents  having  made 
specific  appropriations  for  the  construction  of  any  University 
building,  the  Committee  on  Constructional  Development  shall  in¬ 
vestigate  and  report  to  the  Board  as  to  suitable  sites  for  such 
building,  and  shall  direct  the  preparation  of  the  plans  and  the 
drafting  of  the  specifications.  When  the  site,  plans,  and  specifi¬ 
cations  have  been  adopted  by  the  Board,  the  Executive  Com- 


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mittee,  under  the  direction  of  the  Board,  shall  call  for  bids  and 
shall  recommend  to  the  Board,  for  the  Board’s  action,  the  con¬ 
tractor  or  contractors  who  in  their  opinion  should  be  awarded  a 
contract  for  any  work. 

DUTIES  OF  THE  COMMITTEE  ON  TRUST  FUNDS  AND  DONATIONS 

Section  7.  The  Committee  on  Trust  Funds  and  Donations, 
subject  to  the  Board’s  direction,  shall  have  charge  of  the  inter¬ 
ests  of  the  University  in  all  donations,  gifts,  or  bequests  in  what¬ 
soever  form  provided  for  the  University  or  any  of  its  depart¬ 
ments,  instructional  force,  means  of  education,  students,  or  in 
any  respect  whatever,  and  invest  the  same  from  time  to  time  in 
such  manner  as,  in  its  judgment,  will  best  promote  the  interests 
of  the  University;  and  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  said  Committee 
to  report  annually  to  the  Board  at  the  regular  meeting  in  Octo¬ 
ber  the  condition  of  all  gifts  and  trusts,  and  any  action  required 
to  protect  or  promote  the  interests  of  the  University.  Such  Com¬ 
mittee  is  also  instructed  to  procure  and  file  with  the  Secretary 
a  copy  of  every  instrument  making  any  gift  to  or  for  the  benefit 
of  the  University,  and  the  Secretary  is  directed  to  preserve  the 
same. 

DUTIES  OF  THE  COMMITTEE  ON  BY-LAWS  AND  LAWS 

Section  8.  The  Committee  on  By-laws  and  Laws,  under  the 
direction  of  the  Board,  shall  consider  all  proposed  amendments 
to  the  by-laws  and  laws  of  the  Regents  before  the  same  are  acted 
upon  by  the  Board. 


GENERAL  PROVISIONS  ‘ 

Section  9.  In  the  absence  of  two  or  more  members  of  any 
standing  committee,  except  the  Committee  on  Constructional 
Development,  the  chairman,  or,  in  his  absence,  a  majority  of  the 
members  present,  may  call  in  other  members  of  the  Board  to 
fill  the  vacancies,  enabling  the  committee  to  act. 

All  committees  shall  be  constituted  of  members  of  the  Board 
only,  but  others,  not  members,  may  be  associated  for  consulta¬ 
tion.  'The  President  of  the  Board  shall  be  notified  by  the  Sec¬ 
retary  of  all  meetings  of  the  Executive  and  Finance  Committees. 
The  President,  at  his  discretion,  shall  attend  such  meetings  as 
an  advisory  member.  Nothing  contained  in  these  by-laws  shall 
be  construed  as  excluding,  any  member  of  the  Board  from  attend¬ 
ing  any  committee  meeting. 

REPORTS  OF  COMMITTEES 

Section  10.  All  standing  committees  shall  make  a  full  report 
in  writing  at  each  meeting  of  the  Board, 


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CHAPTER  IV 
Finance 

appropriations  of  money 

Section  1.  All  resolutions  or  motions  for  the  appropriation 
of  money  shall  be  in  writing  and  the  question  thereon  shall  be 
taken  by  yeas  and  nays  which  shall  be  duly  entered  on  record 
by  the  Secretary. 

DRAFTS  UPON  BUDGET 

Section  2.  The  annual  budget  adopted  by  the  Board,  shall 
serve  as  the  basis  of  all  transactions  involving  financial  obliga¬ 
tions. 

Drafts  made  upon  budget  allowances  or  upon  such  other  ap¬ 
propriations  as  may  be  made  from  time  to  time  by  the  Board 
shall  initiate  with  the  administrative  officers  of  the  University 
division  or  department  immediately  concerned  and  shall  be  ad¬ 
dressed  to  the  Business  Manager  in  the  form  of  a  “University 
Requisition”,  clearly  indicating  the  material  or  services  required, 
the  purpose  of  the  same,  the  estimated  cost,  and  the  special 
budget  provision  therefor. 

On  receipt  of  such  requisition,  the  Business  Manager,  having 
ascertained  that  there  is  a  proper  Regent  authority  therefor  and 
convinced  that  the  draft  upon  the  budget  allowance  will  be  to  the 
best  interests  of  the  University,  is  authorized  to  proceed  with  the 
execution  of  the  order,  provided  the  estimated  cost  is  not  in  ex¬ 
cess  of  $2'00. 

Requisitions  upon  budget  allowances  or  special  appropriations 
which  involve  an  expenditure  in  excess  of  $200,  before  being  exe¬ 
cuted  by  the  Business  Manager,  shall  have  the  approval  of  the 
President  of  the  University  and  the  Chairman  of  the  Executive 
Committee,  unless  special  authorization  is  otherwise  given. 

ALLOTMENT  OF  SPECIAL  FUNDS 

Section  3.  There  shall  be  regularly  appropriated  in  the 
annual  budget  the  following  sums  out  of  the  several  sources  of 
income  hereinafter  mentioned  to  the  several  colleges,  depart¬ 
ments,  and  divisions  respectively  following,  namely: — 

(1.)  To  the  College  of  Agriculture,  to  the  College  of  Mechan¬ 
ics  and  Engineering,  and  to  the  College  of  Letters  and  Science, 
each,  one  third  of  the  Agricultural  College  fund  income  as  re¬ 
ceived  from  the  state. 

(2.)  To  the  College  of  Agriculture  and  to  the  College  of 


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Mechanics  and  Engineering  two-fifths  each,  and  to  the  College 
of  Letters  and  Science  one-fifth  of  the  sums  annually  received 
from  the  United  States  under  the  Act  of  Congress  approved 
August  30,  1890,  known  as  the  Morrill  Grant,  and  under  the  Act 
of  Congress  approved  March  4,  1907,  known  as  the  Nelson  Act. 

Both  the  foregoing  appropriations  to  the  College  of  Letters 
and  Science  are  for  instruction  in  the  English  language  and 
the  various  branches  of  mathematical,  physical,  natural,  and 
economical  sciences,  with  special  reference  to  their  application  to 
the  industries  of  life. 

(3.)  To  the  College  of  Agriculture  the  sums  annually  re¬ 
ceived  from  the  United  States  under  the  Act  of  Congress,  ap¬ 
proved  March  2,  1887,  known  as  the  Hatch  Act,  and  the  Act  of 
Congress,  approved  March  16,  1906,  known  as  the  Adams  Act. 

SALARIES 

Section  4.  The  salary  of  each  person  engaged  in  instruction 
or  investigation  shall  be  fixed  by  the  board.  The  full  number 
of  weeks  of  required  instruction  in  the  colleges  and  schools  other 
than  extension  shall  be  thirty-six.  All  members  of  the  staff 
whose  work  is  mainly  investigation  and  all  members  of  the  Ex¬ 
tension  Division  are  expected  to  give  their  full  time  to  the  service 
of  the  University,  except  that  for  such  members  vacations  may 
be  granted  by  the  deans  and  directors  in  consultation  with  the 
President  of  the  University  to  the  extent  of  one  month  each  year. 
Salary  certificates  for  members  of  the  instructional  and  investi¬ 
gative  force  shall  be  presented  to  the  President  in  ten  equal  in¬ 
stallments  on  the  last  Wednesday  of  each  month  from  September 
to  June,  inclusive.  Whenever  by  reason  of  the  terms  of  the  ap¬ 
pointment,  by  resignation,  or  by  removal,  a  full  year’s  work 
is  not  done  by  a  member  of  the  instructional  or  investigative 
force,  the  salary  for  such  service  shall  be  such  a  proportion  of 
the  salary  of  the  entire  year  as  the  time  of  actual  service  bears 
to  the  period  during  which  service  should  be  rendered. 

All  officers  and  employes  of  the  University,  except  those  en¬ 
gaged  in  instruction  or  investigation,  who  are  upon  a  per  annum 
salary,  are  expected  to  give  their  full  year’s  time  to  the  Uni¬ 
versity  with  the  exception  of  such  reasonable  vacations  as  may  be 
arranged  for,  and  shall  receive  each  month  one-twelfth  of  their 
salaries. 


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CHAPTER  V. 

TRUST  FUNDS 

Section  1.  The  State  Treasurer  shall  open  two  special  ac¬ 
counts  of  the  University,  the  first  of  which  shall  be  called  ‘  ‘  The 
University  Trust  Funds;”  and  the  second,  “The  University 
Trust  Funds  Income.”  All  moneys  received  on  account  of  the 
principal  of  any  Trust  Fund  shall  be  credited  to  the  account 
designated  “The  University  Trust  Funds,”  and  all  moneys 
which  shall  be  invested  from  or  on  account  of  the  said  funds,  or 
otherwise  lawfully  disbursed  from  the  principal  thereof,  shall 
be  debited  to  the  said  account,  so  that  the  balance  thereof  on 
the  books  of  the  State  Treasurer  shall  at  all  times  disclose  the 
actual  cash  on  hand  belonging  to  the  principal  of  said  funds. 
There  shall  henceforth  be  credited  to  the  account  designated 
“The  University  Trust  Funds  Income,”  as  the  same  shall  be 
received  by  the  State  Treasurer,  all  interest,  dividends,  or  other 
income  produced  in  any  form  by  or  from  any  securities  or  in¬ 
vestments  of  the  said  “University  Trust  Funds.”  When  loans 
or  investments  shall  be  made  as  hereinbefore  provided,  a  certi¬ 
ficate  of  the  amount,  and  of  the  particulars  thereof,  shall  be 
made  by  the  Committee  on  Trust  Funds  to  the  Secretary  of 
State,  who  shall  issue  his  warrant  on  the  State  Treasurer  there¬ 
for,  mentioning  the  same  as  a  disbursement  from  “The  Uni¬ 
versity  Trust  Funds;”  and  there  shall  at  the  same  time  be  de¬ 
livered  to  the  State  Treasurer,  for  his  custody  as  provided  by 
law,  all  securities  and  papers  relating  thereto  taken  for  such 
loan  or  investment.  When  any  loan  shall  be  paid,  or  the  princi¬ 
pal  of  any  investment  realized  or  reimbursed,  in  full,  the  State 
Treasurer  shall  at  once  certify  the  fact,  with  proper  description 
of  the  security  discharged,  to  the  Secretary  of  the  Board,  wTho 
is  authorized  thereupon  to  execute  on  behalf  of  the  Regents 
of  the  University  any  proper  satisfaction,  discharge,  or  acquit¬ 
tance  which  may  be  necessary  to  release  any  security  upon  the 
public  records  or  otherwise ;  and  to  make  any  assignment,  trans¬ 
fer,  or  reconveyance  which  shall  be  requisite  or  convenient  for 
that  purpose  on  the  part  of  the  Regents  of  The  University  of 
Wisconsin ;  and  the  Secretary  is  authorized  thereafter  to  affix 
thereto,  when  necessary,  the  corporate  seal  of  the  University 
as  the  act  of  the  Regents,  and  shall  report  thereupon  immedi- 
atelv  to  the  Chairman  of  the  Committee  on  Trust  Funds. 

Whenever  the  Regents  of  the  University  shall  receive  by  gift, 
bequest,  or  other  donation  any  income  producing  fund 
they  shall  certify  and  pay  over  the  amount  thereof  to  the  State 
Treasurer  who  shall  credit  the  same  to  the  principal  of  the  ac- 


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count  of  “The  University  Trust  Funds”  and  the  same  shall 
become  a  part  of  the  principal  of  said  account  and  all  income 
derived  therefrom  shall  be  likewise  credited  to  “The  University 
Trust  Funds  Income;”  and  at  the  time  of  so  certifying  a 
duplicate  thereof  shall  be  sent  to  the  Secretary  of  State,  in 
order  that  he  may  make  the  proper  entries  upon  his  accounts. 
At  the  same  time  the  Secretary  of  the  Board  shall  open  proper 
accounts  on  the  books  of  the  University,  as  in  cases  before  pro¬ 
vided  for. 

At  the  close  of  the  30th  day  of  June  in  each  year,  the  State 
Treasurer  shall  make  a  statement  showing  the  total  amount 
received  by  him  and  credited  to  the  account  of  ‘  ‘  The  University 
Trust  Funds  Income”  during  the  fiscal  year  ending  on  that 
date,  with  the  particulars  thereof  in  respect  to  dates,  amounts 
and  respective  securities  or  investments  from  which  the  same 
was  derived,  and  shall  transmit  the  same  to  the  Secretary  of 
the  Regents ;  who  shall  thereupon  make  the  proper  entries 
as  hereinafter  directed.  The  State  Treasurer  shall  likewise  at 
the  same  time  make  a  separate  account  showing  the  balance 
on  hand  at  the  beginning  of  the  fiscal  year  in  the  account  of 
“The  University  Trust  Funds,”  the  amount  received  during 
the  year  to  the  credit  of  such  account  and  the  amount  debited 
thereto,  with  the  particulars  in  either  case  of  dates,  amounts 
and  the  respective  sources  from  which  receipts  were  derived 
or  the  purposes  for  which  disbursements  were  made ;  and  shall 
also  furnish  at  the  same  time  a  list  of  the  securities  and  invest¬ 
ments  in  his  hands  with  the  balance  of  the  principal  thereof 
remaining. 

Section  2.  The  Secretary  of  the  Board  shall  keep  an  ac¬ 
count  entitled  “The  State  Treasurer’s  University  Trust  Funds,” 
and  an  account  entitled  “The  State  Treasurer’s  University 
Trust  Funds  Income,”  both  of  which  shall  be  cash  accounts 
showing  the  true  state  of  the  moneys  remaining  in  the  hands 
of  the  Treasurer  on  account  of  the  Trust  Funds  and  all  the 
moneys  received  as  income  therefrom;  and  shall  be  entirely 
separate  and  apart  from  the  general  account  of  the  State  Treas¬ 
urer  with  the  University  for  receipts  and  disbursements  on 
account  of  the  University’s  general  income.  The  Secretary  of 
the  Board  shall  also  keep  an  account  designated  as  “The  Trust 
Funds  Investments,”  to  which  shall  be  charged  the  principal 
sums  invested  on  account  of  the  loan  of  the  trust  funds,  or  other 
investments  thereof,  for  income  and  to  which  shall  be  credited 
the  payments  received  on  account  of  the  principal  thereof  from 
time  to  time.  Whenever  any  sums  which  have  been  invested 
shall  be  repaid  on  account  of  principal,  the  amount  thereof  will 
be  debited  to  the  State  Treasurer’s  “University  Trust  Funds” 
and  credited  to  the  account  of  “Trust  Funds  Investments,”  so 
specifying  particulars  that  the  latter  account  shall  always  show 


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the  several  investments  and  the  respective  amounts  of  each 
thereof.  Whenever  receipts  are  made  on  account  of  the  prin¬ 
cipal  of  any  of  the  trust  funds  therein  by  realization  of  assets 
not  previously  entered  in  money  account,  or  by  further  dona¬ 
tions,  the  amount  thereof  shall  be  charged  to  “The  State  Treas¬ 
urer’s  University  Trust  Funds”  and  credited  to  the  proper 
trust  fund  account.  Any  disbursements,  or  loss,  on  account 
of  the  principal  of  any  of  said  trust  funds  shall  be  credited  to 
the  State  Treasurer’s  account  and  debited  to  the  proper  trust 
fund.  If  such  loss  shall  consist  in  the  failure  to  collect  any 
investment,  the  amount  thereof  shall  be  apportioned  to  and 
debited  to  the  several  trust  funds  in  accordance  with  the  re¬ 
lation  of  the  principal  of  each  to  the  aggregate  of  the  whole, 
as  hereinafter  provided  for  apportionment  of  income,  except 
in  such  cases  as  the  same  shall  be  taken  from  the  income  and 
charged  to  “The  University  Trust  Funds  Income”  by  order 
of  the  Board. 

Upon  the  receipt  of  the  State  Treasurer’s  statement  made 
at  the  close  of  the  30th  day  of  June,  of  each  year,  the  Secretary 
shall  charge  to  “The  State  Treasurer’s  University  Trust  Funds 
Income”  the  net  amount  of  annual  income  derived  from  all 
the  investments  of  the  trust  funds,  and  shall  at  the  same  time 
apportion  and  credit  to  the  several  income  accounts  of  the 
several  trust  funds  sucli  share  of  the  total  net  income  as  the 
amount  of  principal  of  each  of  said  trust  funds,  as  shown  by 
the  balance  thereof  on  the  first  of  the  fiscal  year  then  closed, 
shall  bear  to  the  aggregate  of  the  principal  of  all  the  trust 
funds  on  that  date,  due  computation  being  entered  on  the  jour¬ 
nal.  Payments  made  out  of  the  income  of  the  several  funds 
shall  then  be  debited  to  such  respective  fund  income  credited, 
upon  warrant  drawn,  to  the  “State '  Treasurer’s  University 
Trust  Funds  Income,”  so  that  the  balance  standing  to  the 
debit  of  the  latter  account  will  always  be  equal  to  the  aggregate 
of  the  balances  standing  to  the  credit  of  the  several  trust  funds 
income  accounts,  and  the  balance  standing  to  the  debit  of 
“The  State  Treasurer’s  University  Trust  Funds”  and  to  the 
debit  of  “The  State  Treasurer’s  University  Trust  Funds  In¬ 
come”  will  always  show  the  balance  of  moneys  in  his  hands 
belonging  to  the  University’s  Trust  Funds,  and  the  produce 
thereof,  and  thus  be  kept  distinct  and  separate  from  the  gen¬ 
eral  accounts  of  the  University. 

Section  3.  Payments  from  the  income  of  each  of  the  several 
trust  funds  mentioned  in  Section  1,  except  the  Adams  Fellow¬ 
ship  Fund,  shall  be  made  annually  in  accordance  with  the 
law  governing  the  respective  fund  as  hereinafter  provided; 
but  no  payment  shall  be  made  until  the  income  shall  have  been 
realized  and,  upon  the  statement  of  the  State  Treasurer,  cred¬ 
ited  to  the  proper  income  account.  Such  part  of  the  income 


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derived  on  account  of  the  Charles  K.  and  Mary  M.  Adams 
Fellowship  Fund,  as  required  by  the  wills  by  which  said  fund 
was  bequeathed,  shall  be  immediately  transferred  to  the  capital 
of  said  fund,  and  for  that  purpose  immediately  upon  the  re¬ 
ceipt  thereof  the  proper  amount  shall  be  certified  to  the  Sec¬ 
retary  of  State  who  shall  draw  his  warrant  for  the  transfer 
thereof  from  “The  University  Trust  Funds  Income  Account’ ’ 
to  “The  University  Trust  Funds”  and  proper  entries  shall  be 
made  by  the  Secretary  upon  the  accounts  aforesaid  on  the 
books  of  the  University  to  show  the  same  by  crediting  the  pro¬ 
portionate  share  of  income  accruing  to  that  fund  to  the  capital 
of  said  fund  by  debiting  the  “State  Treasurer’s  University 
Trust  Funds”  with  the  amount  thereof. 

Section  4.  All  loans  and  investments  of  moneys  belonging 
to  the"  trust  funds  shall  be  made  by  the  Committee  on  Trust 
Funds  from  time  to  time  as  moneys  may  be  in  the  hands  of 
the  State  Treasurer  therefor,  and  the  same  shall  be  certified 
to  the  Secretary  of  State  in  the  manner  required  for  the  certi¬ 
fication  of  accounts  so  that  the  proper  warrant  may  be  drawn 
therefor  upon  the  Treasurer.  For  this  purpose,  the  Committee 
on  Trust  Funds  may  make  such  certification  at  any  conven¬ 
ient  time  and  obtain  the  money  when  necessary  and  they  shall 
promptly  place  in  the  custody  of  the  State  Treasurer  all  securi¬ 
ties,  abstracts  and  other  papers  received  for  every  loan  or  in¬ 
vestment.  Every  such  transaction  shall  be  entered  'in  the 
recorded  minutes  of  the  Committee  on  Trust  Funds  and  re¬ 
ported  at  the  next  following  meeting!  of  the  Board  of  Regents 

All  mortgages  taken  to  secure  loans,  and  the  transfer  of 
all  collateral  securities  for  loans,  shall  be  made  to  “The  Regents 
of  The  University  of  Wisconsin.”  The  Committee  on  Trust 
Funds  is  also  authorized,  at  any  time  when  in  their  discretion 
it  shall  be  to  the  best  interests  of  the  trust  funds,  to  sell  to 
any  purchaser,  upon  such  terms  as)  they  shall  deem  fit,  any 
properties,  whether  real  estate  or  personal,  belonging  to  any 
of  the  trust  funds  of  the  University ;  and  also  to  sell 
any  securities  held  by  investment  of  the  trust  funds,  or  any 
part  thereof;  and  also,  to  compound  and  settle  any  loans  in 
which  any  of  the  trust  funds  are  invested,  or  any  debt  due 
on  account  of  the  said  trust  funds ;  and  in  any  and  every  such 
case,  they  may,  by  resolution  entered  on  their  minutes,  require 
and  authorize  the  President  and  Secretary  of  the  Board  to  ex¬ 
ecute  and  deliver)  a  proper  conveyance,  transfer,  assignment, 
release,  and  satisfaction,  or  other  instrument  requisite  to  give 
full  effect  to  their  action. 

Section  5.  The  provisions  of  this  by-law  relate  only  to  the 
trust  funds  of  the  University  created  for  production  of  in¬ 
come  and  not  to  gifts,  in  any  form,  where  it  is  directed  or  in 
any  way  provided  that  the  principal  of  the  gift  shall  be  ex- 


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pended  or  bestowed  either  during  the  current  year  or  within 
any  short  period  thereafter.  All  such  gifts  or  donations  in 
any  form,  the  principal  of  which  is  to  be  expended  shall  be 
deposited  with  the  current  receipts  and  administered  by  the 
Committee  on  Trust  Funds. 


CHAPTER  VI.* 


Amendments. 

These  by-laws  may  be  added  to  or  amended  at  any  meeting 
of  the  Board  by  an  affirmative  vote  of  a  majority  of  the  mem¬ 
bers  of  the  Board,  and  all  former  by-laws  conflicting  with  these 
by-laws  are  hereby  repealed. 


LAWS  OF  THE  REGENTS 


For  the  Government  of  The  University  of  Wisconsin 


CHAPTER  I 

Board  of  Visitors,  their,  Appointment,  Powers,  and  Duties 

Section  1.  The  Board  of  Visitors  shall  be  composed  of 
twelve  persons,  four  of  whom  shall  be  nominated  by  the  Gover¬ 
nor,  four  by  the  Alumni  Association  of  The  University  of  Wis¬ 
consin,  and  four  by  this  Board.  At  least  one  of  each  of  said 
groups  of  four  shall  be  a  woman.  Such  nominations  shall  be  in 
writing,  properly  executed,  and  shall  be  filed  with  the  Secretary 
of  this  Board.  Upon  the  filing  of  such  nominations  and  upon 
the  nominee’s  filing  with  the  Secretary  of  the  Board  an  accept¬ 
ance  in  writing,  the  Piesident  and  Secretary  of  this  Board  shall 
execute  under  the  seal  of  this  Board  of  Regents  and  shall  issue 
to  the  respective  nominees  suitable  certificates  of  nomination  and 
appointment  as  members  of  the  Board  of  Visitors. 

Section  2.  The  term  of  office  of  said  Visitors,  except  as 
herein  specified,  shall  be  four  years  from  the  first  day  of  Jitlv 
in  the  year  in  which  they  are  appointed  and  until  the  appoint¬ 
ment  and  qualification  of  their  respective  successors;  but  ap¬ 
pointments  to  fill  vacancies  before  the  expiration  of  the  term 
shall  be  for  the  residue  of  the  term  only. 

The  first  appointments  by  the  Alumni  Associations  shall  be 
made  by  the  Executive  Committee  of  the  Association  and  shall 
be  so  made  thereafter  unless  such  Association  shall  provide 
some  other  method  of  appointment. 

The  terms  of  the  appointments  to  the  first  Board  of  Visitors 
in  the  year  1913  shall  begin  June  15th,  1913,  and  shall  be 
classified  so  that  one  of  the  appoinments  made  by  the  Gover¬ 
nor,  one  made  by  the  Alumni  Association,  and  one  made  by 
the  Board  of  Regents  shall  expire  Juty  1,  1914;  one  of  the 


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appointments  made  by  tbe  Governor,  one  made  by  the  Alumni 
Association,  and  one  made  by  tbe  Board  of  Regents  shall  ex¬ 
pire  July  1,  1915;  one  of  the  appointments  made  by  the  Gover¬ 
nor,  one  made  by  the  Alumni  Association,  and  one  made  by 
the  Board  of  Regents  shall  expire  July  1,  1916;  and  one  of 
the  appointments  made  by  the  Governor,  one  made  by  the 
Alumni  Association,  and  one  made  by  the  Board  of  Regents 
shall  expire  July  1,  1917;  thereafter,  as  the  various  terms  ex¬ 
pire,  all  appointments  shall  be  for  a  term  of  four  years. 

Section  3.  The  Board  of  Regents  and  the  Board  of  Visitors 
shall  co-operate.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  said  Board  of  Visitors 
to  render  such  assistance  as  they  may  be  able  in  the  development 
of  the  efficiency  of  the  University,  and  to  that  end,  they  may 
examine  generally  the  work  of  the  University,  the  conditions, 
methods,  manner  and  subjects  of  instruction  in  the  various 
schools,  colleges,  divisions,  and  departments,  the  condition  of  the 
buildings  and  grounds  and  any  other  matter  relative  to  the 
welfare  of  the  University  and  its  faculty  and  students. 

Section  4.  The  first  meeting  of  said  Board  of  Visitors  shall 
be  held  at  the  University,  Madison,  Wisconsin,  on  June  17th, 
1913,  at  11 :  00  o’clock,  A.  ML,  or  as  soon  thereafter  as  shall  be 
convenient.  At  said  meeting,  the  Board  of  Visitors  shall  adopt, 
by  a  majority  vote  of  the  entire  Board,  the  necessary  rules  and 
regulations  (not  conflicting  or  inconsistent  with  the  By-Laws 
and  Laws  of  the  Regents)  providing  for  the  officers  and  com¬ 
mittees  and  for  the  government  of  said  Board  of  Visitors.  All 
the  work  of  the  said  Board  and  its  committees  shall  be  conducted 
in  accordance  with  and  pursuant  to  said  rules  and  regulations 
and  amendments  thereof.  A  copy  of  such  rules  and  regulations 
and  amendments  thereof  and  copies  of  the  minutes  of  their  sev¬ 
eral  meetings  shall  be  filed  with  the  Secretary  of  the  Board  of 
Regents. 

Section  5.  On  or  before  June  1st,  in  each  year,  and  at  such 
other  times  as  the  Board  of  Visitors  may  desire,  they  shall  make 
to  the  Board  of  Regents  a  report  of  their  proceedings  since  the 
last  prior  report,  together  with  any  recommendations  for  the 
betterment  of  the  Universitv,  faculty  or  students.  Such  report, 
with  recommendations,  shall  be  filed  with  the  Secretary  of  the 
Board  of  Regents,  and  the  President  of  the  Board  of  Regents 
shall  transmit  to  the  Governor  and  to  the  Secretary  of  the 
Alumni  Association  a  copy  of  such  report  and  recommendations. 

Every  report  made  by  the  Board  of  Visitors  shall  be  taken 
up  for  consideration  or  action  by  the  Board  of  Regents  at  its 
next  regular  meeting  and  the  Board  of.  Visitors  shall  be  advised 
promptly  concerning  the  disposition  of  the  report  and  of  the 
recommendations  therein. 

Section  6.  The  members  of  such  Board  of  Visitors  shall  re¬ 
ceive  no  compensation ;  but  the  traveling  and  hotel  expenses 


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necessarily  incurred  in  the  performance  of  their  duties  shall 
be  paid  them  upon  the  certificate  of  the  Chairman  and  Secretary 
of  the  Board  and  upon  proper  and  sufficient  proof  by  affidavit, 
to  be  approved  as  in  the  case  of  other  claims. 

Section  7.  A  regular  joint  meeting  of  the  Regents  and  Vis¬ 
itors  shall  be  held  each  year  at  the  University,  on  the  first  Wed¬ 
nesday  of  March,  at  which  meeting  shall  be  considered  reports 
and  recommendations  of  the  Visitors  theretofore  made  during 
the  college  year,  and  other  matters  concerning  the  welfare  and 
efficiency  of  the  University.  Of  such  regular  joint  meeting,  ten 
days’  notice  by  mail  shall  be  given  to  each  Visitor  and  to  each 
Regent  by  the  Secretary  of  the  Board  of  Regents. 

Section  8.  Special  joint  meetings  of  the  Regents  and  Vis¬ 
itors  shall  be  called  by  the  President  of  the  Board  of  Regents, 
at  the  request  of  the  Board  of  Regents  or  of  the  Board  of  Vis¬ 
itors;  such  request  to  be  evidenced  by  resolution  adopted  by  a 
majority  of  the  Visitors  or  of  the  Regents,  at  a  regular  or  spe¬ 
cial  meeting,  and  a  copy  of  which,  duly  certified  by  the  Presi¬ 
dent  and  Secretary  of  the  Board  of  Regents,  or  by  the  Chair¬ 
man  and  Secretary  of  the  Board  of  Visitors,  respectively,  shall 
be  filed  with  the  Secretary  of  the  Board  of  Regents.  Of  such 
special  joint  meetings,  five  days’  notice  by  mail  shall  be  given 
to  each  Visitor  and  to  each  Regent  by  the  Secretary  of  the  Board 
of  Regents. 

Section  9.  The  Board  of  Visitors  shall  have  power  to  re¬ 
quire  the  .attendance  of  any  business  officer,  of  any  employee, 
of  any  student  and  of  any  professor  or  other  educational  officer 
of  the  University,  as  witness,  at  any  special  hearing  or  special 
investigation ;  but  there  shall  be  no  such  special  hearing  or  spe¬ 
cial  investigation  unless  a  resolution  ordering  such  special  hear¬ 
ing  or  special  investigation  shall  first  have  been  duly  adopted, 
at  a  regular  or  special  meeting,  by  the  affirmative  vote  of  a  ma¬ 
jority  of  the  Board  of  Visitors, 


CHAPTER  II 


Officers  and  Employes  of  the  University 

Section  1.  The  officers  of  the  University  shall  be  a  presi¬ 
dent,  a  vice-president,  a  dean  or  director  for  each  of  the  col¬ 
leges,  schools,  and  divisions,  a  librarian,  and  such  directors,  pro¬ 
fessors,  instructors,  and  other  officers  and  employes  as  the  hoard 
may  deem  necessary. 

Section  2.  The  term  of  office  of  every  officer  of  the  Univer¬ 
sity  and  every  employe  shall  ^be  during  the  pleasure  of  the 

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Board  unless  herein  otherwise  expressly  provided.  The  Presi¬ 
dent  and  Vice-President  of  the  University  shall  be  elected  by 
ballot  at  any  regular  meeting  of  the  Board  or  at  any  special 
meeting;  provided ,  the  call  for  such  special  meeting. shall  specify 
the  election  as  an  object  of  such  special  meeting. 

Any  other  officer  of  the  University  may  be  appointed  by  the 
Board  at  any  meeting. 

duties  of  the  president  of  the  university 

Section  3.  The  President  of  the  University  shall  be  the 
executive  head  of  the  instructional  force  and  the  officers  of  the 
instructional  force  are  responsible  to  him. 

He  shall  see  that  all  the  laws,  rules,  and  regulations  pre¬ 
scribed  by  the  Board  of  Regents  for  the  government  of  the  Uni¬ 
versity  are  faithfully  observed.  He  shall  have  authority,  sub¬ 
ject  to  the  regulations  of  the  Board  of  Regents,  and  when  the 
Board  is  not  in  session,  to  the  Executive  Committee,  to  give  direc¬ 
tions  as  to  the  instructional  affairs  and  scientific  investigations 
of  the  several  colleges. 

The  President  has  full  control  of  the  use  of  the  buildings  and 
grounds  of  the  University  so  far  as  they  are  for  the  faculty 
and  students  of  the  University,  but  the  buildings  and  grounds 
for  other  than  University  uses  are  in  the  charge  of  the  Execu¬ 
tive  Committee  of  the  Regents. 

The  President  may  call  upon  the  Business  Manager,  the  Sec¬ 
retary,  the  Bursar,  thd  Purchasing  Agent,  the  Architect,  the 
various  superintendents,  and  other  business  officers,  for  reports 
at  any  time. 

The  President  shall  make  nominations  and  recommendations 
to  the  Board  regarding  salaries  for  deans,  directors,  professors, 
associate  professors,  assistant  professors,  instructors,  and  assist¬ 
ants  in  the  several  faculties  of  the  University,  and  for  other  offi¬ 
cers.  Whenever  in  his  opinion  it  is  advisable  to  make 
any  change  in  the  University  force,  he  shall  communicate  the 
same,  with  appropriate  recommendations,  to  the  Board  of  Re¬ 
gents,  if  in  session,  and  if  not  in  session,  to  the  Executive  Com¬ 
mittee.  The  President  shall  further  report  any  inefficiency  of 
any  employe  that  may  come  to  his  knowledge  to  the  Regents  or 
to  the  Executive  Committee. 

The  President  shall  be  the  regular  channel  of  communication 
between  the  faculties,  the  members  of  the  instructional  force, 
or  other  officers  of  the  University,  and  the  Board  of  Regents  or 
the  Executive  Committee;  provided,  that  this  paragraph  shall 
not  be  interpreted  as  in  any  way  limiting  the  right  of  com¬ 
munication  between  the  members  of  the  faculty  or  other  officers 
of  the  University,  and  the  Regents,  or  as  in  any  way  limiting  the 
manner  in  which  the  Regents  may  gain  information  as  to  the 


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work  of  the  'University  as  they  may  deem  necessary  in  the  per¬ 
formance  of  their  duties. 

Not  later  than  March  20  in  each  year,  unless  otherwise 
ordered  by  the  Regents,  the  President,  with  the  assistance  of  the 
deans  and  other  officers,  shall  prepare  and  submit  the  budget 
for  the  following  fiscal  year  to  the  Finance  Committee  for  their 
revision  and  approval.  On  or  before  the  first  Wednesday  in 
December  of  even-numbered  years,  the  President  shall  make  a 
full  report  upon  the  work  of  the  University  during  the  biennial 
period  ending  the  preceding  June  30,  and  transmit  the  same 
to  the  President  of  the  Regents,  with  a  view  to  its  embodiment, 
or  so  much  thereof  as  may  be  deemed  proper  by  the  Executive 
Committee,  in  the  biennial  report  of  the  Board  to  the  Governor 
and  the  legislature,  to  be  presented  through  the  President  of 
the  Board.  This  report  may  be  accompanied  by  reports  of  the 
deans  and  such  other  officers  of  the  University  as  the  President 
may  deem  desirable. 

The  President,  at  each  regular  meeting  of  the  Board,  and  also 
from  time  to  time  as  may  seem  advisable,  shall  give  to  the  Board 
briefer  reports  upon  the  state  of  the  University,  and  recommend 
to  their  consideration  such  measures  as  he  shall  deem  necessary 
or  expedient. 


DUTIES  OF  THE  VICE-PRESIDENT 

Section  4.  Tn  the  absence  of  the  President  his  duties  shall 
devolve  upon  the  Vice-President  or  one  of  the  deans  desig¬ 
nated  by  the  President. 

DUTIES  OF  THE  PRESIDENT  PRO  TEM 

Section  5.  In  case  of  a  vacancy  in  the  office  of  the  Presi¬ 
dent  and  Vice-President  of  the  University,  or  in  case  of  the 
absence  or  disability  of  such  officers,  the  Executive  Committee 
may,  during  the  recess  of  the  Board,  appoint  a  President,  pro 
tern.,  of  the  University  who  shall  have  the  same  duties  as  the 
Vice-President. 


DUTIES  OF  THE  DEANS 

Section  6.  The  dean  of  each  college,  school,  or  division,  shall 
be  the  executive  officer  of  that  college,  school,  or  division,  and 
shall  be  directly  responsible  to  the  President.  The  dean  of  each 
college,  school,  or  division,  shall  have  immediate  supervision  of 
the  affairs  of  the  college,  school,  or  division  of  which  he  is  the 
head,  in  all  its  departments.  The  ordinary  routine  of  the  busi¬ 
ness  of  each  college,  school,  or  division,  is  through  the  dean,  but 
any  officer  or  employe  of  the  University  may  bring  directly  tn 
the  attention  of  the  President  any  matter  which  he  deems  of 


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such  importance  as  to  render  this  desirable.  The  Dean  of  the 
College  of  Agriculture  is  ex-officio  director  of  the  Agricultural 
Experiment  Station.  'The  Dean  of  Women  shall  have  charge 
of  the  administration  of  affairs  which  exclusively  concern  women 
and  shall  he  directly  responsible  to  the  President.  The  mis¬ 
tresses  of  Chadbourne,  Barnard,  and  other  halls  for  women  shall 
report  to  the  Dean  of  Women. 

Duties  of  the  director  of  the  department  of  physical  edu¬ 
cation,  THE  PROFESSOR  OF  MILITARY  SCIENCE  AND  TACTICS, 
THE  DIRECTOR  OF  THE  COURSE  IN  COMMERCE,  THE  DIRECTOR  OF 
THE  COURSE  IN  CHEMISTRY,  THE  DIRECTOR  OF  THE  COURSE  FOR . 
THE  TRAINING  OF  TEACHERS,  THE  DIRECTOR  OF  THE  COURSE  IN 
PHARMACY,  THE  DIRECTOR  OF  THE  SCHOOL  OF  MUSIC  AND  THE 
DIRECTOR  OF  THE  COURSE  IN  HOME  ECONOMICS 

Section  7.  The  Director  of  the  Department  of  Physical 
Education  shall  be  the  executive  officer  of  the  course  in  Physical 
Education  and  shall  be  directly  responsible  to  the  President. 
The  Professor  of  Military  Science  and  Tactics  shall  be  responsi¬ 
ble  for  the  administration  of  the  military  department  and  shall 
report  directly  to  the  President.  The  Director  of  the  Course  in 
Commerce,  the  Director  of  the  Course  in  Chemistry,  the  Director 
of  the  Course  for  the  Training  of  Teachers,  the  Director  of  the 
Course  in  Pharmacy,  and  the  Director  of  the  School  of  Music, 
shall  be  the  executive  officers  of  the  Course  in  Commerce,  the 
Course  in  Chemistry,  the  Course  for  the  Training  of  Teachers, 
the  Course  in  Pharmacy,  and  the  School  of  Music,  respectively. 
They  shall  be  directly  responsible  to  the  Dean  of  the  College  of 
Letters  and  Science  and  through  him  to  the  President.  The 
Director  of  the  Course  in  Home  Economics  shall  be  the  execu¬ 
tive  officer  of  the  Course  in  Home  Economics  and  shall  be  re¬ 
sponsible  to  the  Dean  of  the  College  of  Agriculture  and  through 
him  to  the  President. 

DUTIES  OF  DEPARTMENTAL  COMMITTEES 

Section  8.  Each  department  shall  have  a  Departmental 
Committee,  which  shall  consist  of  all  the  members  of  professorial 
rank.  Subject  to  the  authority  of  the  Regents,  under  the  laws 
of  the  State,  and  subject  to  the  powers  and  jurisdiction  vested 
in  the  University  Faculty  and  the  faculties  of  the  several  colleges 
schools,  and  divisions,  and  in  the  President  and  administrative 
officers,  the  immediate  government  of  each  department  shall  be 
vested  in  such  departmental  committee,  which  shall  have  juris¬ 
diction  over  all  the  interests  of  the  department  with  power  to 
determine  'all  questions  of  educational  and  administrative  policy 
pertaining  thereto.  The  committee  may  designate  a  member  of 
the  department  to  act  as  secretary  and  assign  him  such  duties  as 
may  seem  advisable. 


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Departmental  recommendations  regarding  the  annual  budget 
and  matters  ordinarily  associated  therewith,  such  as  appoint¬ 
ments,  dismissals,  promotions,  and  salaries,  shall  be  made  by  the 
full  and  associate  professors,  and  shall  be  transmitted  through 
the  chairman  to  the  appropriate  dean. 

The  dean  of  the  college  or  school  to  which  a  department  be¬ 
longs  shall,  after  consultation  with  the  President  of  the  Univer¬ 
sity  and  with  the  departmental  committee,  appoint  a  chairman 
from  the  members  of  professorial  rank.  The  term  of  appoint¬ 
ment  shall  be  for  one  year,  but  there  shall  be  no  limit  upon  the 
number  of  consecutive  appointments. 

The  duties  of  the  departmental  chairman  are  as  follows:  (1) 
To  be  the  channel  of  official  communications  for  all  matters  af¬ 
fecting  the  department  as  a  whole,  between  the  department  and 
the  President,  the  dean,  the  various  directors,  or  other  depart 
ments;  (2)  to  call  meetings  of  the  departmental  committee  and 
to  preside  at  the  same,  and  it  shall  be  his  duty  to  call  a  meeting 
at  the  request  of  any  two  members  of  the  department;  (3)  To 
have  charge  of  all  official  correspondence  of  the  department, 
and  of  all  departmental  announcements  in  the  catalogue,  or  other 
University  publications;  (4)  To  have  the  oversight  of  all  lec¬ 
tures  in  the  department  delivered  by  anyone  not  a  member  of 
the  department;  (5)  'To  see  that  all  necessary  records  of  teach¬ 
ing  and  research  of  the  department  are  properly  kept  and  are 
always  accessible  to  the  proper  authorities;  (6)  To  make  an¬ 
nually  a  statement  of  all  the  activities  and  needs  of  the  depart¬ 
ment  to  the  dean  for  transmission  to  the  President;  (7)  To  make 
requisitions  for  all  departmental  supplies;  (8)  To  act  as  a  source 
of  arbitration,  when  necessary,  either  between  students  and  any 
member  of  the  department,  or  between  different  members  in  the 
department;  (9)  In  case  of  any  emergency  to  have  authority 
to  act  pending  a  meeting  of  the  departmental  committee;  (10) 
In  general  to  act  as  the  executive  of  the  department. 

Before  a  new  course  of  study  is  announced  in  any  depart¬ 
ment,  it  must  receive  the  approval  of  the  chairman  of  the  de¬ 
partment  and  the  dean  of  the  college,  school,  or  division  in 
which  the  course  is  given.  If  the  proposed  new  course  lies  in  a 
field  which  is  also  covered,  to  a  greater  or  less  degree,  by  a  de¬ 
partment  of  another  college,  school,  or  division,  it  shall  be  re¬ 
ferred  for  approval  to  a  committee  consisting  of  the  deans  of 
the  colleges,  schools,  or  divisions,  and  the  chairman  of  the  de¬ 
partments  concerned. 

DUTIES  OF  THE  LIBRARIAN 

Section  9.  The  Librarian  is  responsible  for  the  proper  ad¬ 
ministration  of  the  University  Library  and  shall  report  di¬ 
rectly  to  the  President.  lie  shall  make  nominations  and  recom¬ 
mendations  to  the  President  as  to  salaries  for  the  Library  Staff. 


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He  shall  keep  a  record  in  which  the  names  of  persons  holding 
official  trust  in  the  University,  and  of  those  wearing  its  honors 
shall  be  entered,  as  well  as  all  facts  of  historical  interest  con¬ 
cerning  tlie  University. 

DUTIES  OF  THE  DIRECTOR  OF  THE  OBSERVATORY  AND  THE  DIRECTORS 
OF  THE  GYMNASIUMS 

Section  10.  The  Director  of  the  Observatory  and  the  Directors 
of  the  gymnasiums  shall  be  responsible  for  the  proper  admin¬ 
istration  of  the  observatory  and  the  gymnasiums.  The  Director 
of  the  Observatory  shall  report  to  the  President  and  the  Direct¬ 
ors  of  the  gymnasiums  shall  report  to  the  Director  of  Physical 
Education. 


DUTIES  OF  THE  REGISTRAR 

Section  11.  The  Registrar  has  general  charge  of  the  regis¬ 
tration  and  records  of  students.  In  the  performance  of  his 
duties  he  is  directly  responsible  to  the  President. 


TENURE  OF  OFFICE 

Section  13.  All  deans,  directors,  professors,  and  associate 
professors  shall  hold  their  positions  at  the  pleasure  of  the  Board; 
assistant  professors  for  the  term  of  three  years,  if  so  appointed ; 
instructors,  assistants,  and  fellows  for  the  term  of  one  year;  but 
all  subject  to  termination  at  the  pleasure  of  the  Board.  It  shall 
be  understood  that  on  the  expiration  of  the  term  of  an  assistant 
professor  or  instructor  there  is  no  obligation  whatever  to  renew 
the  appointment  and  without  renewal  the  appointment  shall 
thereupon  lapse  and  be  void.  It  shall  be  competent  for  the 
Board,  on  the  recommendation  of  the  President,  to  shorten  the 
terms  above  indicated  by  special  agreement. 

NO  RELIGIOUS  OR  PARTISAN  INSTRUCTION 

Section  14.  In  the  regular  exercises  of  the  University,  con¬ 
ducted  under  the  supervision  of  the  University  authorities,  no 
discussion,  either  sectarian  in  religion  or  partisan  in  politics, 
shall  be  permitted  in  any  manner  contrary  to, the  letter  or  spirit 
of  the  constitution  or  laws  by  virtue  of  which  the  University 
was  established;  and  it  shall  be  the  special  duty  of  the  Presi¬ 
dent  and  faculty  to  require  the  uniform  and  unconditional  ob¬ 
servance  of  this  rule. 

NO  DISCRIMINATION  BETWEEN  MEN  AND  WOMEN 

Section  15.  Men  and  women  shall  be  equally  entitled  to 
membership  in  all  classes  of  the  University;  and  there  shall  be 


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no  discrimination  on  account  of  sex  in  granting  scholarships  or 
fellowships  in  any  of  the  colleges,  schools,  divisions,  or  depart¬ 
ments  of  the  University. 

SHALL  NOT  IMPAIR  SERVICE 

Section  16.  No  member  of  the  instructional  force  or  other 
employe  in  the  service  of  the  University  shall  impair  that  serv¬ 
ice  by  devoting  to  private  purposes  any  portion  of  the  time  due 
to  the  University. 


ABSENCES 

Section  17.  No  member  of  the  instructional  force  or  other 
employe  shall  absent  himself  from  his  proper  duties  at  the  Uni¬ 
versity  except  by  the  permission  of  the  President  or  appropriate 
dean,  and  the  President  or  a  dean  shall  not  give  leave  of  absence 
longer  than  two  weeks  without  previous  permission  of  the  Board 
or  the  Executive  Committee ;  nor  without  authority  shall  any 
member  of  such  force  be  entitled  to  receive  extra  compensation 
for  any  special  service  performed  during  term  time  for  the  bene¬ 
fit  of  the  University  in  the  line  of  his  special  profession  or  calling. 
The  deans  shall  place  on  file  in  the  President’s  office  records  of 
absences  granted  and  the  President  shall  report  to  the  Board 
at  each  meeting  upon  all  absences. 

EMPLOYES  SHALL  NOT  ACT  AS  AGENTS 

Section  18.  No  professor  or  regular  employee  of  the  Uni¬ 
versity  shall  act  as  agent  of  any  manufacturer,  publisher,  busi¬ 
ness  house,  or  corporation  ;  or  undertake  to  dispose  of  any  ap¬ 
paratus,  books,  or  any  other  merchandise  for  any  manufacturer, 
publisher,  business  house,  or  corporation  whether  such  professor 
or  employe  receive  compensation  therefor  or  not ;  unless  the  con 
sent  of  the  Board  or  the  Executive  Committee  in  writing  be  first 
obtained. 


SHALL  NOT  SOLICIT  FUNDS  WITHOUT  AUTHORITY 

Section  19.  No  member  of  the  faculty  shall  solicit  funds 
for  or  in  behalf  of  the  University  or  any  department  thereof 
from  individuals,  corporations,  or  the  state  legislature,  without 
express  authority  from  the  Board  of  Regents. 

CARE  OF  PROPERTY 

Section  20.  All  apparatus,  museum  materials,  scientific  col¬ 
lections,  and  other  University  property  appertaining  to  the  vari¬ 
ous  departments  shall  be  in  the  immediate  care  of  the  professors 
of  the  respective  departments  to  which  such  material  belongs, 


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subject,  however,  to  the  control  of  the  President  and  the  deans. 
Every  professor  having  charge  of  any  apparatus,  specimens, 
books,  or  collections  shall  be  responsible  for  the  safety  of  the 
same;  and  in  a  book  provided  for  the  purpose  shall  carefully 
keep  a  record  or  inventory  of  the  same,  showing  a.  description  of 
the  articles  sufficient  to  identify  them  without  difficulty,  date  of 
receipt,  from  whom  obtained,  etc.,  etc. 

SUMMER  SESSION 

Section  21.  There  shall  be  a  summer  session  of  the  Univer¬ 
sity  lasting  six  weeks  in  the  College  of  Letters  and  Science,  the 
College  of  Engineering,  the  College  of  Agriculture  (ten  weeks 
for  some  departments),  and  the  Medical  School,  and  ten  weeks 
in  the  Law  School.  The  supervision  of  the  Summer  Session  is 
placed  in  the  immediate  charge  of  a  director  who  is  responsible 
to  the  President. 

A  member  of  the  faculty  may  be  called  upon  to  teach  every 
alternate  year,  unless  he  shall  otherwise  arrange  with  the  Di¬ 
rector  of  the  Summer  Session.  For  full  service  in  the  Summer 
Session  rendered  by  a  member  of  the  regular  faculty  of  the  Uni¬ 
versity,  compensation  for  the  six  week  session  shall  be  two  fif¬ 
teenths  of  the  salary  for  the  fiscal  year  in  which  the  session  falls, 
with  a  minimum  of  $150  for  instructors,  $225  for  assistant  pro¬ 
fessors,  and  $300  for  associate  professors  and  professors,  and 
with  a  maximum  of  $500;  and  for  the  ten  week  session  two 
ninths  of  said  salary  for  the  fiscal  year,  with  proportionate  mini- 
mums  and  maximums.  For  full  service  in  the  summer  session, 
in  lieu  of  money  compensation,  there  will  be  allowed  to  members 
of  the  instructional  force,  of  the  rank  of  assistant  professor  or  of 
a  higher  rank,  one  semester’s  leave  of  absence  on  full  salary  for 
teaching  in  two  summer  sessions  in  the  colleges  or  schools  having 
sessions  of  six  weeks  in  length,  and  one  year  of  absence  for  two 
and  one-half  summers  teaching  in  the  law  school,  the  session  of 
which  is  ten  weeks.  An  instructor  who  teaches  in  the  summer 
session  and  desires  leave  of  absence  in  lieu  of  salary  may  be  per¬ 
mitted  to  elect  leave  of  absence ;  provided  he  has  been  an  instruc¬ 
tor  in  the  University  three  or  more  years,  and  provided  that 
when  he  shall  receive  his  leave  the  total  sum  paid  to  him  and  his 
substitutes  shall  not  exceed  the  sum  of  his  salary  for  the  semester 
or  year  in  which  leave  is  given  plus  the  amount  that  he  would 
have  received  for  teaching  in  the  summer  sessions. 

Research  or  agricultural  extension  work  may  be  assigned  dur¬ 
ing  the  summer"  to  members  of  the  staff  by  the  dean  of  the  col¬ 
lege,  school,  or  division  concerned,  in  consultation  with  the  Pres¬ 
ident.  subject  to  the  approval  of  the  Regents,  to  the  extent  of  six 
weeks  in  any  one  year.  The  money  compensation  for  such  serv¬ 
ices  shall  be  two-thirds  of  that  given  for  teaching  in  the  summer 
session.  Leave  of  absence  for  summer  research  and  agricultural 


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extension  will  be  given  in  lieu  of  money  compensation  to  assist¬ 
ant  professors  and  those  of  higher  rank,  and  to  instructors  of 
three  years’  standing,  but  not  to  those  of  lower  rank.  For  any 
case  such  leave  of  absence  shall  be  for  a  time  equal  to  that  which 
has  been  given  to  summer  research  or  extension  work,  viz. :  ab¬ 
sence  during  one  semester  for  three  full  periods  of  summer  serv¬ 
ice. 

It  is  not  the  policy  of  the  University  to  grant  leave  of  absence 
to  any  person  on  the  summer' session  basis  to  a  greater  extent 
than. one  semester  in  three  and  one-half  years,  or  to  grant  leave 
of  absence  on  salary  when  the  leave  of  absence  is  to  be  used  for 
teaching  elsewhere  or  for  engaging  in  other  salaried  occupations, 
nor  to  allow  leave  of  absence  privilege  for  anyone  to  accumulate 
to  a  greater  extent  than  one  year.  No  leave  of  absence  will  be 
granted  unless  an)  arrangement,  satisfactory  to  the  President 
and  Regents,  providing  for  the  work  of  the  officer  during  his 
absence,  shall  have  been  made  in  advance. 


CHAPTER  III 

Organization  and  Powers  of  the  Faculty 

Section  1.  The  staff  of  instruction  of  The  University  of  Wis¬ 
consin  shall  be  organized  into 

The  University  Faculty. 

The  faculties  of  the  several  colleges,  schools,  and  divisions. 

THE  UNIVERSITY  FACULTY 

Section  2.  (1)  The  University  Faculty  has  charge  of  all  mat¬ 
ters  which  concern  more  than  one  college,  school,  or  division, 
or  are  otherwise  of  general  University  interest.  The  college, 
school,  and  division  faculties  have  charge  of  matters  which  lie 
entirely  wdthin  their  respective  jurisdictions.  In  case  of  con¬ 
flict  of  jurisdiction  between  the  University  Faculty  and  the  fac¬ 
ulty  of  any  college,  school,  or  division,  the  decision  shall  rest  with 
the  Universdv  Faculty. 

(2)  The  University  Faculty  shall  consist  of  the  President  of 
the  University;  all  deans  and  directors,  professors,  associate  pro¬ 
fessors,  assistant  professors,  acting  professors,  lecturers  on  regu¬ 
lar  appointment,  the  mistresses  of  the  women’s  halls,  the  super¬ 
intendent  of  agricultural  institutes,  Librarian  and  assistant  li¬ 
brarians,  and  the  High  School  Inspector.  Instructors  and  assist¬ 
ants  may  attend  the  regular  meetings  of  the  faculty  and  have 
the  right  to  be  heard,  but  not  the  right  to  vote, 


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(3)  The  presiding  officer  of  the  University  Faculty  shall  be 
the  President,  or,,  in  his  absence,  the  Vice-President;  in  the 
absence  of  both,  one  of  the  deans,  designated  by  the  President, 
or,  failing  such  designation,  in  the  order  of  the  colleges,  schools, 
and  divisions,  as  stated  in  Section  3.  The  President  shall  ap¬ 
point  all  committees  of  the  Faculty  unless  otherwise  ordered, 
and  he  is  ex-officio  a  member  of  all  the  committees  of  the  Faculty. 

(4)  The  University  Faculty  shall  appoint  a  secretary,  who 
shall  hold  office  for  one  year,  or  until  the  appointment  of  his  suc¬ 
cessor,  and  who  shall  keep  a  full  record  of  their  proceedings. 
The  Faculty  shall  provide  for  such  committees  and  make  such 
rules  and  regulations  in  regard  to  their  own  proceedings  as  in 
their  judgment  are  called  for  by  the  best  interests  of  the  Uni¬ 
versity. 

(5)  The  regular  meetings  of  the  Faculty  shall  be  held  at  such 
times  as  the  Faculty  shall  determine,  but  special  meetings  shall 
be  held  at  the  call  of  the  President,  or  any  two  of  the  deans,  or  of 
any  five  members.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  Secretary  of  the 
Faculty  to  call  special  meetings  as  he  may  be  directed. 

(6)  Subject  to  the  laws  and  by-laws  of  the  Regents,  under  the 
laws  of  the  State,  the  University  Faculty  shall  have  general 
charge  of  those  questions  of  scholarship  which  pertain  to  more 
than  one  college,  school,  or  division ;  and.  they  may  make  needful 
rules  for  the  enforcement  of  scholarship  and  discipline. 

Among  the  matters  in  charge  of  the  University  Faculty  are 
the  following: 

(a)  Questions  concerning  the  educational  interests  or  educa¬ 
tional  policies  of  the  University. 

(b)  The  requirements  and  methods  for  admission  to  the  sev¬ 

eral  colleges,  schools,  and  divisions  of  the  University,  including 
matters  relating  to  accredited  schools ;  the  terms  of  graduation ; 
and  the  nature  of  the  degree  to  be  conferred  on  the  completion 
of  any  course  of  study.  In  all  such  cases  the  recommendation 
of  the  appropriate  college,  school,  or  division  faculty  shall  be 
heard  before  action  is  taken.  , 

(c)  The  form  of  commencement  exercises,  including  the  selec¬ 
tion  or  the  provision  for  the  selection  of  speakers. 

(d)  The  recommendations  of  candidates  for  honorary  degrees, 
which  recommendations  for  any  year  shall  be  submitted  to 
the  Regents  not  later  than  the  April  meeting. 

(e)  The  election  of  the  Library  Committee;  the  regulation  of 
social  affairs,  athletic  sports  and  intercollegiate  games,  and  of 
musical  and  dramatic  clubs,  and  other  like  organizations. 

(f)  The  investigation  of  cases  of  alleged  infraction  of  Univer¬ 
sity  rules,  or  other  misconduct,  and  the  administration  of  dis¬ 
cipline  to  any  students  who,  after  due  examination,  may  be  found 
guilty  of  misconduct. 

(7)  The  Faculty  may  delegate  the  investigation  of  all  cases  of 
discipline  to  two  Faculty  committees,  called  The  Committee  on 


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Appeals  and  The  Committee  on  Discipline,  which  committees 
shall  include  the  dean  or  deans  of  the  colleges,  of  which  the  ac¬ 
cused  students  are  members.  Such  committees  may  exercise  the 
full  powers  of  the  faculty  in  reference  to  suspension  until  the 
next  meeting  of  the  faculty,  and  may  make  recommendations  in 
regard  to  expulsion.  All  actions  of  such  committees  are  sub¬ 
ject  to  appeal  to  the  faculty,  hut  pending  such  appeal  the  stu¬ 
dent  may  remain  suspended  at  the  discretion  of  the  committees. 
Any  action  of  such  committees  involving  censure  or  punishment 
of  any  student  shall  he  reported  at  once  to  the  parent  or  guardian 
of  such  student,  if  not  twenty-one  years  of  age  and  self-support¬ 
ing,  and  to  the  President  of  the  University,  who  shall  transmit 
the  report  to  the  Executive  Committee,  or  to  the  Regents  at  the 
next  regular  meeting  thereafter.  Such  action  shall  also  he  re¬ 
ported  to  the  University  Faculty  at  their  next  regular  meeting. 

The  responsibility  of  the  Committee  on  Appeals  for  the  duties 
as  above  outlined  may  he  delegated  by  the  Faculty  to  a  student 
court  and  to  a  student  judicial  committee  to  the  extent  formu¬ 
lated  in  Part  V,  Chapter  II. 

THE  FACULTIES  OF  THE  COLLEGES,  SCHOOLS,  AND  DIVISIONS 

Section  3.  (1)  The  college,  school,  and  division  faculties  of 

the  University  are : 

(a)  The  Faculty  of  the  College  of  Letters  and  Science. 

(b)  The  Faculty  of  the  College  of  Engineering. 

(c)  The  Faculty  of  the  College  of  Agriculture. 

(d)  The  Faculty  of  the  Law  School. 

(e)  The  Faculty  of  the  Medical  School. 

(f)  The  Faculty  of  the  University  Extension  Division. 

(g)  The  Faculty  of  the  Graduate  School. 

Within  the  College  of  Letters  and  Science  and  forming  a  part 
of  it,  for  administrative  purposes,  is  the  School  of  Music. 

(2)  The  faculty  of  each  college,  school,  or  division  shall  con¬ 
sist  of  the  President  of  the  University,  the  Dean,  and  all  persons 
who  give  instruction  in  that  college,  school  or  division  with  the 
exception  of  student  assistants,  fellows,  and  scholars.  It  is  made 
the  duty  of  all*  members  of  anv  faculty  to  be  present  at  all  regu¬ 
lar  meetings  and  at  such  special  meetings  as  may  be  called.  All 
members  have  a  right  to  speak  on  any  question ;  but  no  person 
below  the  rank  of  assistant  professor,  whose  term  of  appointment 
is  for  one  year  only,  shall  have  a  right  to  vote. 

(3)  Regular  meetings  of  each  of  the  faculties  shall  be  held  as 
often  as  each  faculty  may  deem  necessary  for  the  efficient  per¬ 
formance  of  its  duties.  The  Dean  is  the  presiding  officer  of  each 
faculty,  and  shall  be  ex-officio,  a  member  of  all  committees.  Each 
faculty  shall  appoint  a  secretary,  who  shall  keep  a  full  record  of 
the  proceedings.  Each  faculty  shall  make  such  rules  of  pro¬ 
cedure  and  provide  for  such  committees  as  are  called  for  by  the 
best  interests  of  the  college,  school,  or  division. 


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(4)  Each  faculty,  subject  to  the  laws  and  by-laws  of  the  Re¬ 
gents,  under  the  laws  of  the  state,  and  to  the  general  control  of 
the  University  Faculty,  shall  in  its  college,  school,  or  division  have 
charge  of  matters  of  scholarship. 

Among  the  duties  of  each  faculty  are  the  following: 

(a)  To  make  recommendations  to  the  University  Faculty  con¬ 
cerning  the  requirements  for  admission;  the  course  of  study; 
the  conditions  of  graduation ;  and  the  nature  of  the  degrees  to 
he  conferred. 

(b)  To  establish  rules  and  methods  for  the  advancement  and 
graduation  of  students  and  their  dismissal  for  defective  scholar¬ 
ship.  To  administer  the  regulations  for  the  admission  of  stu¬ 
dents,  so  far  as  such  duty  shall  be  committed  to  them  by  the 
University  Faculty. 

(c)  To  recommend  to  the  Regents  candidates  for  degrees 
in  course  and  candidates  for  the  University  fellowships  and 
University  scholarships  provided  by  the  Regents  and  fellow¬ 
ships  and  scholarships  provided  by  private  foundation ;  and 
to  elect  honorary  fellows  and  honorary  scholars.  The  number 
of  the  latter  class  shall  not  exceed' the  number  of  University  fel¬ 
lows  and  University  scholars. 

(d)  To  report  to  the  University  Faculty  any  cases  of  miscon¬ 
duct  which  seem  to  call  for  investigation  by  that  body. 

(5)  The  dean  or  secretary  of  the  faculty  of  any  college, 
school,  or  division  shall  transmit  to  the  University  Faculty,  for 
consideration  and  review,  all  matters  which  belong  to  the  Uni¬ 
versity  Faculty,  or  which,  from  their  nature,  concern  more 
than  one  college,  school,  or  division. 

A  copy  of  the  proceedings  of  6ach  faculty  shall  be  fur¬ 
nished  by  its  secretary  to  the  President  of  the  University. 
The  secretary  shall  also  communicate  to  the  President,  for  trans¬ 
mission  to  the  Regents,  any  faculty  action  which  does  not  de¬ 
mand  consideration  *by  the  University  Faculty,  but  which,  from 
its  nature,  requires  consideration  by  the  Regents,  or  which  in 
any  essential  way  departs  from  the  established  routine  and  meth¬ 
ods  of  the  University. 

Section  4.  Copies  of  the  minutes  of  the  several* faculties  shall 
be  transmitted  to  the  Secretary  of  the  Regents  to  be  transcribed, 
and  copies  thereof  sent  to  each  Regent. 


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CHAPTER  IV. 

Miscellaneous. 

Section  1.  The  Calendar.  The  regular  University  year 
opens  on  the  last  Wednesday  in  September.  There  are  two 
semesters  in  each  year.  The  first  semester  ends  on  the  Friday 
following  the  twentieth  Wednesday  of  the  college  year.  The 
second  semester  begins  on  the  succeeding  Monday,  and  ends  with 
the  annual  Commencement,  on  the  thirty-ninth  Wednesday  of 
the  University  year. 

The  limits  of  the  Christmas  vacation  vary  with  the  day  of  the 
week  on  which  Christmas  falls.  The  following  table  shows  the 
arrangement : 


If  Christmas  falls  on  Vacation  opens,  noon  Recitations  begin  8  a.  m. 

Sunday..: .  Thursday,  Dec.  22  Wednesday,  Jan.  4 

Monday .  Thursday,  Dec.  21  Thursday,  Jan.  4 

Tuesday .  Thursday,  Dec.  20  Thursday,  Jan. 

Wednesday .  Friday,  Dec.  20  Tuesday,  Jan.  7 

Thursday.  .  * .  Tuesday,  Dec.  23  Tuesday,  Jan.  0 

Friday .  Tuesday,  Dec.  22  Tuesday,  Jan.  5 

Saturday .  Wednesday,  Dec.  22  Tuesday,  Jan.  4 


The  Easter  recess  begins  on  Thursday  morning  before  Easter 
Sunday,  and  closes  on  the  morning  of  the  following  Tuesday. 

The  University  faculty  are  authorized  to  readjust  the  be¬ 
ginning  and  end  of  vacations  from  time  to  time,  as  the  interest  of 
the  University  may  require,  provided  that  such  readjustment 
does  not  shorten  the  University  year. 


fees — general  requirements. 

Section  2.  All  fees  must  be  paid  at  the  beginning  of  each 
semester.  Re  fore  admitting  any  student'  regularly  to  his  classes 
or  other  University  exercises  it  is  the  duty  of  each  instructor  to 
require  presentation  of  a  class  card  showing  that  the  fees  have 
been  paid  by  such  student. 

The  summer  session  fee  will  be  remitted  to  professors,  associate 
professors,  assistant  professors,  instructors,  and  doctors  of  philos¬ 
ophy,  members  of  the  staff  of  the  university,  who  are  not  candi¬ 
dates  for  degrees  here  or  elsewhere. 

Tuition  is  free  for  all  students  from  the  State  of  Wisconsin. 
The  liability  of  students  to  pay  tuition  charges,  as  distinguished 
from  incidental  fees,  shall  be  determined  by  the  Registrar. 

Graduate  students  pay  the  same  fees  as  undergraduate  stu¬ 
dents  of  the  College  of  Letters  and  Science,  but  all  fellows  and 
graduate  scholars  are  exempt  from  the  non-resident  tuition  fee, 
and  honorary  fellows  and  honorary  scholars  are  exempt  from 


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both  the  non-resident  and  incidental  fees.  Graduate  students  in 
absentia  pay  the  same  fees  as  graduate  students  in  attendance  at 
the  University,  provided  that  after  such  students  have  paid  fees 
to  the  amount  they  would  naturally  pay,  if  in  attendance,  for  the 
degree  for  which  they  are  candidates,  no  further  fee  will  be  re- 
cpiired.  Members  of  the  instructional  and  research  force  of  the 
University  and  members  of  the  research  staff  of  the  State  Geologi¬ 
cal  and  Natural  History  Survey  who  are  candidates  for  degrees 
shall  pay  such  fees  as  are  prescribed  for  graduate  students  resi¬ 
dent  in  Wisconsin,  but  the  total  fee  so  paid  shall  be  limited  to 
the  aggregate  sum  required  of  students  giving  to  such  candidacy 
their  entire  time  during  the  period  ordinarily  required  to  obtain 
the  degree  sought.  The  period  ordinarily  required  to  obtain  a 
master’s  degree  or  corresponding  professional  degree  shall  be 
construed  as  two  semesters,  and  the  corresponding  period  for  the 
doctor’s  degree  as  seven  semesters. 

An  additional  fee  of  one  dollar  per  semester  must  be  paid  by 
students  who  pay  their  fees  after  the  prescribed  registration  days. 

Upon  the  recommendation  of  the  Commandant  of  the  Depart¬ 
ment  of  Military  Science,  the  Secretary  of  the  Regents  is  au¬ 
thorized  to  remit  fees  to  the  extent  of  $10  per  semester  to  com¬ 
pany  officers  of  the  battalion  having  the  rank  of  captain  or  above, 
and  to  award  a  prize  of  $50  at  the  end  of  eacli  year  of  service 
to  the  field  officers,  viz:  colonel,  lieutenant  colonel,  and  adjutant. 


SCHEDULE  OF  FEES* 
Graduate  School. 


Resident  tuition .  1  Free 

Non-resident  tuition,  per  semester . .  50.00 

Incidental  fee  for  all  students,  per  semester .  12.00 


College  of  Letters  and  Science. 


Resident  tuition . .  Free 

Non-resident  tuition,  per  semester . .  50.00 

Incidental  lee  for  all  students,  per  semester .  12.00 


Medical  School. 

Resident  tuition . . . • . . .  Free 

Non-resident  tuition,  per  semester .  50,00 

Incidental  fee  for  all  students,  per  semester .  12.00 

College  of  Engineering. 

Resident  tuition .  Free 

Non-resident  tuition,  per  semester .  50.00 

Incidental  fee  for  all  students,  per  semester .  12.00 

Summer  vacation  work .  7.00 


"Non-resident  tuition  is  fixed  by  statute  at  the  rate  of  $100  per  annum. 
(See  pp.  62) 


Laws  of  Regents 


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College  of  Agriculture. 


Resident  tuition .  Free 

Long1  and  middle  courses,  non-resident  tuition  per  semester .  50.00 

Incidental  fee  for  all  long  and  middle  course  students  per  se¬ 
mester  .  12.00 

Short  course,  non-resident  tuition,  per  term .  38.88 

Incidental  fee  for  all  short  course  students,  per  term .  6.50 

Dairy  course,  non-resident  tuition,  per  term .  33.33 

Incidental  fee  for  all  students,  per  term . .  6.50 

Forest  rangers  course,  non-resident  tuition,  at  the  university,  per 

term . .n.  . .  338.88 

Incidental  fee  for  all  students,  per  term .  3.25 

Farmers’  course,  non-resident  tuition .  5.50 

Law  School 

Resident  tuition .  Free 

Non-resident  tuition,  per  semester .  50.00 

Incidental  fee  for  all  students,  per  semester . .  12.00 

School  of  Music 

Resident  tuition .  Free 

Non-resident  tuition,  per  semester .  50.00 

Incidental  fee  for  all  students,  per  semester .  12.00 


Persons  who  are  members  of  other  colleges  of  the  univer¬ 
sity  may  take  the  general  courses  in  music  without  charge. 
Members  of  the  school  of  music  and  other  departments,  who 
take  special  courses,  will  pay  special  fees,  as  stated  in  the 
annual  catalog. 

Library  School 


Resident  tuition,  per  semester . .  25.00 

Non-resident  tuition,  per  semester . .  50.00 


Students  who  have  paid  fees  in  other  departments  of  the 
University  before  entering  the  library  school  will  pay  an  ad¬ 
ditional  fee  to  reach  the  above  amounts. 

Summer  Session 


Graduate  School,  (six  weeks) .  15.00 

Letters  and  Science,  (six  weeks) .  15.00 

Engineering,  (six  weeks) . 15.00 

Agriculture  (six  weeks) .  15  00 

Agriculture  (ten  weeks) . . .  25  00 

Law,  (ten  weeks) .  25.00 

Field  courses,  geology,  mining,  metallurgy,  farm  management, 

(four  weeks) .  10.00 

Students  remaining  beyond  the  regular  summer  session,  addition¬ 
al  iee,  per  week .  2.50 


Wisconsin  High  School! 


Resident  tuition,  per  quarter,  6th  and  5th  classes .  6.00 

4th,  3rd,  2nd,  and  1st  classes .  8.00 

Non-resident  tuition,  per  quarter .  15  00 


f  The  complete  school  year  of  the  Wisconsin  .High  School  consists  of 
four  quarters  of  twelve  weeks  each.  At  the  present  time  (1914)  the  school 
is  in  regular  session  but  three  quarters. 


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PARTIAL  FEES  AND  REFUNDS. 

From  students  entering  after  one-half  of  a  semester  or  tern! 
shall  have  elapsed,  only  one-half  of  the  aforesaid  tuition  and  fees 
shall  be  collected. 

The  Bursar,  upon  the  recommendation  of  the  Registrar,  is 
authorized  to  refund  to  students  withdrawing  from  tjie  Univer¬ 
sity,  the  proportion  of  any  semester’s  tuition  and  fees  indi¬ 
cated  by  the  following  table  : 

Prom  beginning 

of  semester  Deduct  per  cent  Refund  per  cent 


Until  2  weeks 

20 

80 

Between  2  and  4  weeks 

40 

00 

“  4  and  6  weeks 

00 

40 

“  0  and  8  weeks 

80 

20 

After  8  weeks 

100 

0 

In  eases  of  students  entering  after  regular  registration  days 
and  withdrawing  within  the  eight-weeks  period,  the  amount  to 
be  returned  may  be  determined  by  using  the  above  table  as  a 
basis. 

Summer  session  refunds  will  be  on  the  same  proportional  basis 
as  refunds  for  the  regular  year. 

The  full  amount  of  fees  paid  shall  be  returned  to  students  who 
for  some  reason  fail  of  admission  to  the  University. 

No  claim  for  remission  of  fees  will  be  considered  unless  such 
claim  be  presented  during  the  fiscal  year  to  which  the  claim  is 
applicable. 

laboratory  and  special  fees. 

Section  9.  Laboratory  and  special  fees  may  be  fixed  by  the 
various  departments  in  consultation  with  the  dean  or  President, 
and  may  be  changed  from  time  to  time,  but  each  department 
shall  fix  the  fees  at  amounts  sufficient  to  cover  fully  the  cost  of 
all  services,  supplies,  temporary  apparatus,  and  other  material 
required  by  the  students  in  their  work,  and  for  depreciation 
on  permanent  apparatus  which  is  placed  at  the  disposal  of  indi¬ 
vidual  students. 

Fellows,  scholars,  and  student  assistants  are  required  to  pay 
laboratory  fees;  instructors  and  assistants  are  exempt  from 
such  fees. 


CHAPTER  Y. 

Amendments. 

These  laws  may  be  added  to  or  amended  at  any  meeting  of 
the  Board  by  an  affirmative  vote  of  a  majority  of  the  members 
of  the  Board,  and  all  laws  conflicting  with  these  laws  are  hereby 
repealed. 


FACULTY  RULES. 


For  Government  and  Discipline  of  Students;  Approved 
by  the  Regents 


CHAPTER  I. 


General  Regulations. 

Section  1.  All  students  are  required  to  comply  with  the 
rules  and  regulations  made  by  the  Faculty  and  by  the  Regents. 

Section  2.  Any  student  when  sent  for  by  the  President, 
a  dean,  or  a  professor,  shall  respond  to  the  call  without  delay. 

Section  3.  Any  student  guilty  of  any  crime  or  misdemeanor, 
of  frequenting  drinking  saloons,  habitual  gambling,  immorality, 
dishonesty  in  University  work,  or  any  action  not  conducive  to 
the  welfare  of  the  University,  may  be  suspended  or  expelled  at 
the  discretion  of  the  University  Faculty.  But  no  expulsion  of 
any  student  shall  be  made  until  the  accused  shall  have  been  heard 
or  have  an  opportunity  to  be  heard  in  his  defense,  nor  until  the 
parents  or  guardian,  if  he  b.e  a  minor,  shall  have  been  notified  of 
the  accusation;  and  no  expulsion  shall  take  place  without  the 
action  of  the  Faculty  at  a  regularly  called  meeting. 

Section  4.  Whenever  the  Dean  is  satisfied  that  a  student  of 
his  college,  school,  or  division  is  not  properly  fulfilling,  or  likely 
to  fulfill  the  purpose  of  his  residence  at  the  University,  or  is  for 
any  reason  an  unfit  member  thereof,  he  may  notify  such  student, 
and  the  parent  or  guardian,  in  order  that  the  student  may  have 
an  opportunity  to  withdraw;  and  if  such  student,  after  such 
notice  has  been  served,  does  not  withdraw  within  a  reasonable 
time  his  case  shall  be  reported  to  the  appropriate  committee  for 
action. 

Section  5.  The  faculty  of  any  college,  school,  or  division 
or  the  appropriate  faculty  committees  may  drop  a  student 


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from  the  University  at  any  time  for  defective  scholarship  or  in¬ 
attention  to  duties. 

Section  6.  Concerted  absence  from  any  appointed  duty  by 
a  class,  or  any  number  of  students  together,  shall  be  regarded  as 
a  violation  of  good  order  and  may  be  followed  by  suspension  or 
dismissal. 

Section  7.  All  orations,  debates,  dissertations,  essays,  songs, 
etc.,  of  students,  intended  for  public  performance  at  the  Uni¬ 
versity  or  elsewhere,  shall  be  previously  submitted  for  approval 
to  some  member  or  members  of  the  Faculty,  designated  by  the 
President  for  that  purpose  and  shall  not  be  delivered  unless 
approved. 

Section  8.  The  publication  by  any  student  or  students  of  any 
book,  pamphlet,  periodical,  chart,  or  other  publication,  bearing 
the  name  of  the  University,  or  purporting  to  emanate  from  it,  is 
forbidden,  unless  the  publication  be  previously  approved  by 
some  member  or  members  of  the  Faculty  designated  by  the  Presi¬ 
dent  for  such  purpose. 

Section  9.  No  student  or  student  organization  shall  be  per¬ 
mitted  to  use  or  issue,  without  the  previous  approval  of  the 
President,  any  publication  or  letterhead  bearing  the  name  of  the 
University  in  any  other  form  than  simply  “The  University  of 
Wisconsin,  Madison,  Wis.  ” 

Section  10.  No  student  may  take  part  in  a  public  contest  or 
performance  who  is  on  probation  or  who  is  seriously  defective  in 
scholarship  or  in  entrance  requirements. 

Section  12.  All  students  whose  work  for  a  degree  is  com¬ 
plete  before  the  evening  of  Saturday  before  Commencement  will 
be  recommended  to  the  Regents  at  the  June  meeting  of  the 
Board.  Students  who  finish  their  work  at  other  times  will  be 
recommended  to  the  Regents  at  the  next  meeting  of  the  Board. 
The  diploma  shall  bear  the  date  of  the  meeting  of  the  Regents 
at  which  the  degree  was  granted.  The  students  shall  be  ranked  in 
the  catalogue  with  the  class,  of  the  calendar  year  indicated  by 
the  diplomas. 

Section  13.  Unless  excused  by  the  appropriate  faculty,  per¬ 
sonal  attendance  at  Commencement  is  required  from  candidates 
for  degrees  who  have  completed  their  studies  for  a  degree  in 
course,  except  in  cases  where  the  candidate  has  fully  completed 
all  requirements  for  graduation  at  the  end  of  the  first  semester. 
In  case  a  student  is  absent  front  Commencement  without  excuse, 
the  degree  will  be  conferred  at  the  first  Commencement  at  which 
the  student  is  present. 


Faculty  Rule's 


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CHAPTER  II 


A — STUDENT  COURT 

Section  1.  The  Student  Court  shall  consist  of  nine  male 
students  of  The  University  of  Wisconsin,  three  being  elected  each 
year  as  sophomores  to  hold  office  for  two  years,  and  three  being 
elected  as  juniors  to  hold  office  for  one  year.  Nominations  for 
membership  in  the  Student  Court  shall  be  made  by  the  Executive 
Committee  of  the  Student  Conference  from  the  male  students  of 
the  sophomore  and  junior  classes,  two  men  to  be  nominated  for 
each  one  to  be  elected.  At  least  one  week  prior  to  the  meeting  of 
the  Executive  Committee  for  the  making  of  nominations,  notice 
of  such  meeting,  asking  for  the  submission  of  names  of  candi¬ 
dates,  shall  be  published.  The  name  of  any  eligible  student  sub¬ 
mitted  by  petition  of  ten  students  shall  be  considered  by  the 
Executive  Committee.  The  Conference  may,  at  its  discretion, 
reject  any  or  all  of  the  nominees  and  direct  the  Executive  Com¬ 
mittee  to  submit  further  nominations.  Elections  shall  be  by  the 
Student  Conference  in  May  of  each  year.  The  members  so 
elected  shall  supersede  their  predecessors  at  the  beginning  of  the 
next  succeeding  academic  year.  Vacancies  occurring  in  the 
membership  of  the  Student  Court  shall  be  filled  in  the  same 
manner,  nominations  to  be  made  from  the  class  of  the  member 
withdrawing  if  the  vacancy  occur  during  the  academic  year  in 
which  the  member  was  elected,  and  from  the  class  in  which  the 
member  would  normally  be  if  the  vacancy  occur  in  subsequent 
years.  Any  member  resigning  may  continue  to  act  in  cases 
pending  at  the  time  of  his  resignation. 

Section  2.  No  member  of  the  Student  Court  shall,  at  the 
same  time  hold  any  of  the  following  offices:  Editor  in  Chief  or 
Business  Manager  of  the  Badger  Board,  member  of  the  Union 
Board,  class  president,  member  of  the  Student  Conference,  Prom. 
Chairman,  or  member  of  the  Athletic  Board. 

Section  3.  The  Student  Court  shall  choose  its  own  presiding 
officer  and  secretary  and  shall  keep  a  complete  record  of  all  its 
proceedings.  The  Court  shall  maintain  in  the  Library  of  the  Uni¬ 
versity  of  Wisconsin  a  complete  current  record  of  its  proceed¬ 
ings  and  findings  which  record  shall  be  accessible  to  students. 
In  cases  heard  in  closed  meetings  of  the  Court,  as  provided  by 
Section  9,  the  record  shall  be  closed  until  the  final  disposition 
of  the  case  by  the  Faculty,  and  the  Court  may,  at  its  discretion, 
keep  the  record  in  such  cases  permanently  closed.  Notice  of  the 
decisions  reached  by  the  Student  Court  shall  immediately  be 
sent  to  the  Faculty  Committee  on  Appeals,  to  the  dean  of  the 


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College  of  which  the  student  tried  is  a  member,  and  to  the  com¬ 
plainant  and  defendant  in  the  case. 

Section  4.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  Student  Court  to  main¬ 
tain  good  ordei:  throughout  the  male  student  body,  and  to  enforce 
University  regulations  within  its  jurisdiction.  The  Student  Court 
shall  have  original  and  exclusive  jurisdiction  in  all  cases  of  dis¬ 
cipline  of  male  undergraduates,  except  cases  arising  in  the  sum¬ 
mer  session,  except  cases  involving  dishonesty  in  university  work, 
and  except  such  flagrant  cases  of  action  or  behavior  so  contrary 
to  the  welfare  of  the  university  as  to  require  immediate  consid¬ 
eration.  In  such  flagrant  cases  the  Student  Court  may  recom¬ 
mend  to  the  Faculty  Committee  on  Appeals  temporary  suspension 
pending  regular  trial.  If  in  such  flagrant  cases  the  Student 
Court  fails  so  to  act  within  forty-eight  hours  after  complaint  is 
made  to  the  court,  the  Faculty  Committee  on  Appeals  may  sus¬ 
pend  to  such  time  as  the  Student  Court  shall  have  Anally  acted 
and  until  faculty  action  upon  the  recommendation  of  the  Student 
Court. 

Section  5.  The  Student  Court  shall  have  power  to  require  the 
attendance  of  any  student  as  witness  or  defendant  in  any  matter 
before  the  Court,  and  shall  have  power  to  impose  penalties  for 
failure  to  attend.  An  appeal  from  the  decision  of  the  court  im¬ 
posing  a  penalty  for  failure  to  attend  may  be  taken  in  the  man¬ 
ner  provided  in  Section  7. 

Section  6.  The  recommendation  of  the  Court  as  to  the  dispo¬ 
sition  of  the  case  together  with  a  statement  of  the  facts  shall  be 
transmitted  to  the  University  Faculty  through  the  Committee  on 
Appeals.  In  case  of  any  student  found  guilty  by  the  Student 
Court,  the  Faculty  Committee  on  Appeals  shall,  if  within  its 
powers,  carry  out  the  recommendations  of  the  Court,  and  if  sus¬ 
pension  or  expulsion  is  recommended  the  Faculty  Committee  on 
Appeals  shall  immediately  suspend  the  student  until  the  next 
meeting  of  the  University  Faculty. 

Section  7.  Any  student  sentenced  by  the  Student  Court  may 
appeal  to  the  Faculty  Committee  on  Appeals.  The  dean  of  the 
college,  of  which  the  student  tried  is  a  member,  may  appeal  the 
case  to  the  Faculty  Committee  on  Appeals  upon  the  ground  that 
there  is  evidence  bearing  upon  the  case  that  was  not  brought  out 
in  the  trial  by  the  Student  Court.  In  case  of  such  appeal  by  a 
student  or  dean,  the  Faculty  Committee  on  Appeals,  after  due 
investigation,  shall  either  affirm  the  decision,  or  remand  the  case 
to  the  Student  Court  for  rehearing  with  its  findings  and  recom¬ 
mendations  thereon.  When  a  case  has  been  reheard  by  the 
Student  Court,  the  Faculty  Committee  on  Appeals  shall  transmit 
the  final  decision  of  the  Student  Court  unmodified  to  the  Faculty. 

Section  8.  Nothing  in  the  provisions  for  the  constitution  of 
the  Student  Court  and  its  jurisdiction  shall  in  any  way  annul  or 
limit  the  present  right  of  the  student  to  appeal  to  the  Faculty 
in  discipline  cases. 


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149 


Section  9.  The  Student  Court  shall  formulate  and  cause  to  be 
printed  and  distributed  among  the  students,  the  rules  governing 
its  procedure  in  accordance  with  the  provisions  of  this  charter. 
All  meetings  of  the  Court  shall  be  open  to  all  students,  provided, 
however,  that  in  extreme  cases,  requiring  secrecy,  or  in  order  to 
get  evidence  otherwise  impossible  to  obtain,  the  Court  may,  at 
its  discretion,  close  the  meeting. 

Section  10.  In  each  case  brought  before  the  Student  Court, 
either  by  the  filing  of  formal  charges  or  on  its  own  initiative,  the 
Court  shall  appoint  one  of  its  own  members,  and  one  or  more 
members  of  the  student  body  to  act  as  examiners  for  the  student 
body.  Any  member  of  the  Court  so  appointed  shall  not  act  as  a 
justice  on  the  case.  If  the  defendant  chooses,  he  may  submit  the 
names  of  not  more  than  two  students,  whom  the  Court  shall  ap¬ 
point  as  examiners  for  the  defendant. 

Section  11.  The  Student  Conference  may  at  any  time  by  a 
majority  vote,  proceed  to  an  investigation  of  the  behavior,  integ¬ 
rity  or  competency  in  office,  of  any  member  of  the  Student  Court. 
If  such  an  investigation  shall  result  in  the  adoption  by  the  Confer¬ 
ence  of  a  report  or  resolution  implying  an  impeachable  offense 
on  the  part  of  any  member  of  the  Student  Court,  such  member 
shall  have  the  right  to  demand  in  writing  a  trial  for  impeach¬ 
ment  and  upon  such  demand  an  impeachment  shall  be  consid¬ 
ered  as  voted.  On  petition  of  twenty  members  of  the  Confer¬ 
ence  the  Conference  may  impeach  any  member  of  the  Student 
Court  for  misbehavior,  corruption  or  gross  incompetency  in  of¬ 
fice,  provided,  however,  that  no  impeachment  shall  be  voted  un¬ 
less  an  investigation  has  previously  been  held  upon  the  charges 
contained  in  the  impeachment.  Trial  upon  the  charges  of  the 
impeachment  shall  be  by  the  Student  Conference,  a  concurrence 
of  two-thirds  of  the  members  present  being  necessary  for  convic¬ 
tion  provided  that  no  impeachment  shall  be  voted  by  fewer  than  a 
majority  of  the  Conference.  The  members  of  the  Student  Con¬ 
ference  shall  take  an  affirmation  of  honor  before  the  trial  to 
truly  and  impartially  try  the  impeachment  according  to  the  evi¬ 
dence.  In  investigations  and  impeachment  cases  the  provisions 
of  Section  5  shall  apply  to  the  Student  Conference,  and  in  case 
of  the  imposition  of  any  penalty  upon  a  student  for  failure  to 
attend  as  witness  or  defendant,  the  provisions  of  Section  6  shall 
apply  to  the  Student  Conference. 

Section  12.  No  member  of  tbe  Court  shall  act  in  his  official 
capacity  while  under  impeachment.  Tf  impeachment  of  a  mem¬ 
ber  or  members  of  the  court,  under  Sections  11  and  12  should 
threaten  miscarriage  or  serious  delay  of  justice  in  any  case  be¬ 
fore  tbe  Student  Court,  the  Committee  on  Appeals  of  the  Faculty 
shall  have  authority  to  assume  original  jurisdiction  of  the  case. 
Conviction  upon  the  charges  of  the  impeachment  shall,  in  all 
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office  in  the  future.  After  removal,  the  student  convicted  shall 
be  liable  to  further  prosecution  and  punishment  before  the 
proper  body. 

b — student  judicial  committee 

Section  13.  A  Judicial  Committee  shall  be  constituted  con¬ 
sisting  of  seven  women  students,  including  the  President  of  the 
Self  Government  Association,  three  members  of  the  Executive 
Board  and  three  from  the  University  at  large.  Exclusive  of  the 
President  of  the  Self  Government  Association,  who  shall  be  chair¬ 
man  of  the  committee,  three  of  the  members  shall  be  seniors  and 
three  juniors  who  shall  be  appointed  by  the  Board.  Appoint¬ 
ments  shall  be  made  on  or  before  October  10.  Members  shall 
hold  office  during  the  remainder  of  their  undergraduate  course. 
Vacancies  shall  be  filled  as  they  occur.  The  Secretary  shall  be 
chosen  by  the  members  of  the  Committee  and  shall  keep  a  com¬ 
plete  record  of  all  its  proceedings.  Notice  of  the  decisions 
reached  by  the  Judicial  Committee  shall  be  sent  immediately  to 
the  Faculty  Committee  on  Appeals,  the  Dean  of  Women,  and  to 
the  Dean  of  the  college,  school,  or  division  of  which  the  student 
tried  is  a  member. 

Section  14.  The  Judicial  Committee  shall  have  original  and 
exclusive  jurisdiction  in  all  cases  of  discipline  of  women  under¬ 
graduates  except  cases  involving  dishonesty  in  University  work, 
and  except  such  flagrant  cases  of  action  or  behavior  so  contrary 
to  the  welfare  of  the  University  as  to  require  immediate  consid¬ 
eration.  In  such  flagrant  cases  the  Judicial  Committee  may 
recommend  to  the  Committee  on  Appeals  temporary  suspension 
pending  regular  trial.  If  in  such  flagrant  cases  the  Judicial 
Committee  fails  to  act  within  forty-eight  hours  after  complaint 
is  made  to  the  committee,  the  Committee  on  Appeals  may  sus¬ 
pend  to  such  time  as  the  Judicial  Committee  shall  have  acted 
and  until  faculty  action  upon  the  recommendation  of  the  Judi¬ 
cial  Committee. 

Section  15.  In  cases  of  suspension,  the  evidence,  with  the  rec¬ 
ommendation  of  the  committee,  shall  be  transmitted  to  the  Uni¬ 
versity  Faculty  through  the  Committee  on  Appeals.  In  case  of  any 
student  found  guilty  by  the  Judicial  Committee,  the  Committee 
on  Appeals  shall,  if  within  its  power,  carry  out  the  recommenda¬ 
tion  of  the  committee  and  the  Faculty  Committee  on  Appeals 
shall  immediately  suspend  the  student  until  the  next  meeting  of 
the  University  Faculty. 

Section  16.  Any  student  whose  suspension  is  recommended 
by  the  Judicial  Committee  may  appear  before  the  Committee 
on  Appeals  on  the  ground  that  there  is  evidence  bearing  upon 
the  case  that  was  not  brought  out  in  the  trial  by  the 
Committee.  In  case  of  such  appeal  by  a  student,  the  Faculty 
Committee  on  Appeals,  after  due  investigation,  shall  either  dis- 


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miss  the  appeal  or  remand  the  case  to  the  Judicial  Committee 
for  rehearing  with  its  findings  and  recommendations  thereon. 
When  the  case  has  been  reheard  by  the  Judicial  Committee, 
the  Committee  on  Appeals  shall  transmit  the  final  decision  of 
the  Judicial  Committee  unmodified  to  the  Faculty. 

Section  17.  Nothing  in  the  above  provisions  for  the  constitu¬ 
tion  of  the  Student  Judicial  Committee  and  its  jurisdiction  shall 
in  any  way  annul  or  limit  the  present  right  of  the  student  to 
appeal  to  the  Faculty  in  discipline  cases. 

ABRIDGEMENT  OF  POWERS  OF  COURT  OR  COMMITTEE 

Section  18.  The  Regents  of  the  University  will  not  alter  or 
abridge  the  power  of  the  Student  Court  or  of  the  Judicial  Com¬ 
mittee  without  an  opportunity  for  representatives  of  the  Confer¬ 
ence,  Court,  or  Judicial  Committee  to  be  heard  upon  the  pro¬ 
posed  change  by  the  Regent  Committee  on  By-laws  and  Laws, 
or  some  other  committee  of  the  Regents  designated  for  the  pur¬ 
pose. 


CHAPTER  ITT 


Student  Organizations 

REGULATIONS  GOVERNING  SOCIAL  LIFE 

Section  1.  No  person  who  is  not  officially  connected  with  the 
University  may  be  an  active  member  of  any  student  organiza¬ 
tion  bearing  the  name  of  the  University. 

Section  2.  All  organizations  bearing  the  name  of,  or  repre¬ 
senting  the  University,  must  have  the  approval  of  the  proper 
authorities  before  taking  part  in  any  public  exhibition. 

Section  3.  Subject  to  the  control  of  the  Faculty,  the  various 
committees,  or  other  authority  in  charge  of  student  organizations 
may  make  such  rules  and  regulations  for  the  government  of 
such  organizations  as  they  deem  advisable. 

Section  4.  Students  occupying  dormitories,  and  members  of 
all  fraternities,  or  sororities,  or  other  student  organizations 
occupying  permanent  quarters  for  social  or  living  purposes  shall 
adopt  house  rules. 

Section  5.  On  or  before  November  1,  a.  copy  of  such  house 
rules  shall  be  presented  to  the  Chairman  of  the  Student  Interests 
Committee  for  the  consideration  of  the  Committee. 

Section  6.  In  case  the  Committee  shall  recommend  any 
modifications  of  such  house  rules^  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  the 
organization  concerned  to  consider  the  recommendations  of  the 


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Committee,  and  to  report  in  writing  to  the  Chairman,  within 
thirty  days,  the  result  of  this  consideration.  In  case  such  re¬ 
port  is  not  satisfactory  to  the  Committee,  the  Committee  shall 
refer  the  matter  to  the  University  Faculty. 

Section  7.  Organizations  referred  to  in  Section  4  shall  ap¬ 
point  a  house  committee  consisting  of  at  least  three  members, 
whose  duty  it  shall  be  to  enforce  the  observance  of  the  house 
rules,  and  who  shall  be  primarily  responsible,  individually  and 
collectively,  for  the  observance  of  Faculty  rules  by  the  organiza¬ 
tion  or  body  which  they  represent.  This  committee  shall  also 
constitute  the  regular  channel  of  communication  between  the 
organization  and  the  Students  Interests  Committee.  Organiza¬ 
tions  not  occupying  a  house  shall  appoint  a  similar  committee 
with  similar  duties  and  responsibilities. 

Section  8.  All  parties  and  receptions  shall  be  held  either 
on  Friday  evening,  Saturday  evening,  or  the  evening  before  a 
legal  holiday  (not  on  the  evening  before  a  half-holiday,  nor  on 
the  evening  of  a  legal  holiday,  unless  the  legal  holiday  falls  on 
Friday  or'  Saturday),  and  shall  close  at  or  before  midnight. 
But  each  organization  may  once  during  the  year  hold  a  one- 
o’clock  or  “formal”  party,  on  first  securing  the  written  per¬ 
mission  of  the  Secretary  of  the  Student .  Interests  Committee. 
Such  permission  will  not  be  given  for  a  party  to  be  held  on 
Saturday  night. 

Section  9.  All  functions  at  which  both  men  and  women  are 
present  must  be  properly  chaperoned.  'The  authority  of  the 
chaperones  must  be  recognized  by  all  present.  In  case  of  large 
functions  it  is  required  that  a  committee  be  appointed  to  assist 
the  chaperones  in  the  performance  of  their  duties. 

Section  10.  During  all  periods  when  lectures  and  examina¬ 
tions  are  not  being  held,  the  Chairman  of  the  Student  Interests 
Committee  may  give  permission  for  parties  on  any  night  except 
Sunday;  such  parties  may  extend  to  two  o’clock. 

Section  11.  All  parties  held  outside  the  city  of  Madison  shall 
conform  to  the  following  requirements: 

1.  The  participants  shall  return  to  the  city  not  later  than 
midnight. 

2.  They  shall  be  properly  chaperoned,  and  the  names  of  the 
chaperones  shall  be  presented  in  writing  to  the  Secretary  of  the 
Student  Interests  Committee  not  less  than  Two  days  prior  to  the 
time  of  the  holding  of  such  parties. 

regulations  governing  public  exhibitions 

Section  12.  Any  student  organization  which  desires  to  give 
a  public  performance  must  receive  the  authorization  of  the  Stu¬ 
dent  Interests  Committee  for  such  performance  and  for  the  date 
on  which  it  is  to  be  held. 

Section  13.  All  rehearsals  of  student  dramatic  and  musical 
performances  must  be  properly  chaperoned. 


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Section  14.  Proposals  relative  to  trips  outside  of  Madison 
must  be  submitted  to  the  Students  Interests  Committee  for  its 
approval  at  least  six  weeks  before  the  contemplated  trip. 

Section  15.  In  the  case  of  women  the  following  additional 
regulations  apply: 

1.  Participation  in  Madison  performances  only. 

2.  Approval  of  the  University  Medical  Adviser. 

REGULATIONS  GOVERNING  ELIGIBILITY. 

These  regulations  apply  to  students  taking  part  in  dramatic 
and  musical  performances  (except  dramatic  performances  given 
in  a  foreign  language),  public  debates  and  oratorical  exhibitions, 
and  to  members  of  the  editorial  and  business  staffs  of  all  Uni¬ 
versity  publications. 

Section  16.  Candidates  must  be  regularly  enrolled  in  the 
University. 

Section  17.  First-year  students  are  not  eligible  until  their 
second  semester. 

Section  18.  Candidates  must  have  no  conditions  and  no 
failures  and  weighted  average  of  at  least  77  for  the  previous 
semester.  Students  with  ‘Uncompletes”  are  required  to  secure 
the  consent  of  their  class  advisers. 

Section  19.  Students  under  discipline  are  ineligible. 

Section  20.  No  student  shall  participate  in  more  than  one 
play  during  a  semester.  (Sections  17  and  20  do  not  apply  to 
musical  performances.) 

Section  21.  The  names  of  all  students  subject  to  these  rules 
of  eligibility  must  be  submitted  to  the  Student  Interests  Com¬ 
mittee  not  later  than  four  weeks  preceding  the  proposed  date 
of  each  performance. 

REGULATIONS  GOVERNING  ADMISSION  INTO  FRATERNITIES  AND 

SORORITIES. 

Section  22.  No  person,  not  a  member  of  the  University  shall 
be  pledged. 

Section  23.  No  freshman  shall  lodge  or  board  in  a  frater¬ 
nity  house. 

Section  24.  No  student  shall  be  initiated  by  a  fraternity 
while  on  probation. 

Section  25.  No  student  shall  be  initiated  by  a  fraternity  until 
the  beginning  of  his  sophomore  year. 

Section  26.  No  student  initiated  elsewhere  shall  affiliate  with 
the  chapter  of  his  fraternity  at  Wisconsin  until  the  beginning 
of  his  sophomore  year. 

Section  27.  There  shall  be  no  ostentatious  rushing  at  any 
time. 

Section  28.  'There  shall  be  no  rushing  and  pledging  cf  fresh¬ 
men  before  the  first  day  of  May. 


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Section  29.  Whenever  the  fraternities  or  sororities,  or  both, 
by  a  three-fourths  majority,  shall  adopt  further  regulations  for 
their  control,  not  in  violation  to  the  Faculty  regulations,  the 
Student  Interests  Committee  shall  have  power,  subject  to  the 
approval  of  the  Faculty,  to  make  such  action  binding  upon  all 
fraternities  or  sororities. 


CHAPTER  TV. 


Athletics. 


(Rules  marked  x  are  Conference  regulations.) 

Section  1.  Administration: 

1.  (a)  All  branches  of  athletics  shall  be  under  the  general 
direction  of  the  department  of  physical  education,  acting,  as 
hereinafter  described,  in  conjunction  with  the  athletic  council. 

(b)  The  athletic  council  shall  consist  of  five  members  of  the 
Faculty,  appointed  by  the  President,  at  least  three  of  whom  shall 
be  of  the  rank  of  professor. 

(c)  The  duties  of  the  council  shall  be  to  pass  upon  the  eligibil¬ 

ity  of  all  candidates  for  teams,  to  approve  all  student  managers, 
captains  of  teams,  and  student  or  other  temporary  and  unpaid 
coaches,  to  ratify  all  contracts  and  schedules,  and  to  perform 
such  other  duties  as  are  now,  or  hereafter  may  be,  assigned  to 
them  by  the  faculty,  the  regents,  or  the  intercollegiate  confer¬ 
ence.  ' 

2.  $  Any  athletic  surplus  shall  be  devoted  as  far  as  possible  to 
permanent  University  improvements;  and  the  financial  manage¬ 
ment  of  athletics  shall  be  entirely  within  the  control  of  the 
faculty  which  shall  publish  a  report  of  the  receipts  and  expenses. 
This  rule  is,  however,  subject  to  the  statute  regarding  the  con¬ 
trol  of  athletic  funds.  (See  chapter  758,  section  4,  subsection  33, 
Statutes  of  1913.) 

3.  t  The  price  of  admission  to  intercollegiate  contests  for 
students  of  the  University  shall  not  be  more  than  fifty  cents,  in¬ 
cluding  reserved  seats. 

4.  %  All  intercollegiate  games  shall  be  played  on  grounds 
either  owned  by  or  under  immediate  control  of  one  or  both  of 
the  colleges  participating  in  the  contest;  and  all  intercollegiate 
games  shall  be  played  under  student  or  college  management,  and 
not  under  the  control  of  any  corporation  or  association  or  private 
individual. 

5.  x  Every  athletic  contract  made  shall1  contain  a  clause 
making  such  contract  binding  only  in  so  far  as  it  is  not  in  con- 


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flict  with,  existing  or  future  legislation  by  the  State  Legislature, 
the  Board  of  Regents,  or  the  Intercollegiate  Athletic  Conference. 

6.  (a)  |  No  coach  shall  be  appointed  except  by  University 
governing  bodies  on  the  recommendation  of  the  Faculty,  or  Presi¬ 
dent,  in  the  regular  way,  and  at  a  moderate  salary. 

(b)  All  paid  coaches  in  football,  baseball,  and  track  athletics, 
shall  be  members  of  the  faculty,  employed  for  the  entire  year. 

7.  %  There  shall  be  no  training  table  or  training  quarters  for 
any  athletic  team. 

6.  f  There  shall  be  no  preliminary  training  prior  to  Septem¬ 
ber  20th  of  each  year. 

9.  %  No  student  shall  play  upon  any  football  team  consisting 
in  whole  or  in  part  of  college  students  in  any  contest  with  higii 
schools,  academies,  or  independent  professional  schools.  College 
football  teams  shall  play  only  with  teams  representing  educa¬ 
tional  institutions. 

10.  X  Students  during  their  first  year  of  residence  shall  com¬ 
pete  in  athletics  only  against  members  of  their  own  institution. 

11.  X  Not  more  than  seven  games  of  intercollegiate  football 
shall  be  played  by  any  team  in  any  season. 

12.  t  The  football  season  shall  end  the  Saturday  before 
Thanksgiving. 

13.  X  Before  any  intercollegiate  contest  the  competent  Uni¬ 
versity  officers  of  the  institutions  concerned  shall  submit  to  each 
other  a  certified  list  of  the  players  eligible  under  the  rules 
adopted,  to  participate  in  said  contest.  They  shall  state  in  their 
certificates  of  eligibility: 

(a)  That  the  student  has  passed  all  entrance  requirements; 

(b)  That  he  has  passed  all  intervening  work  as  regularly  re¬ 
quired  in  the  University  for  the  period  involved; 

(c)  That  he  is  taking  full  work  in  the  present  semester. 

No  student  may  participate  in  any  intercollegiate  sport 
without  passing  a  satisfactory  medical  and  physical  examina¬ 
tion  in  advance  of  such  participation. 

No  student  may  participate  in  any  intercollegiate  sport  who 
has  a  weighted  average  of  less  than  77. 

A  student  may  participate  in  two  successive  major  sports  in 
one  semester  only  after  his  case  has  been  specially  passed  upon 
by  the  Athletic  Council,  which  shall  base  its  judgment  upon 
data  to  be  obtained  from  both  the  academic  and  medical  adviser. 

X  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  faculty  manager  of  the  respective 
teams  to  exclude  all  players  from  the  contest  except  those  certi¬ 
fied. 

Section  2.  Rules  of  Eligibility: 

14.  X  (a)  No  one  shall  participate  in  any  intercollegiate 
contest  unless  he  is  a  bona  fide  matriculated  student  regularly 
enrolled  as  a  candidate  for  a  degree  and  doing  full  work  as  de¬ 
fined  by  the  regulations  of  the  department  in  which  he  is  en¬ 
rolled. 


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(b)  No  person  who  has  participated  as  a  college  student  in 
apy  intercollegiate  game  as  a  member  of  any  college  team  shall 
be  permitted  to  participate  in  any  game  as  a  member  of  any 
other  college  team  until  he  has  been  a  matriculate  in  such  col¬ 
lege  under  the  above  conditions  for  a  period  of  one  year  and 
until  after  the  close  of  the  succeeding  season  devoted  to  the  sport 
in  which  he  last  participated. 

(c)  No  student  shall  participate  in  intercollegiate  athletics 
until  he  shall  have  been  in  residence  one  year  and  shall  have 
completed  one  full  year  of  work,  in  addition  to  meeting  the  en¬ 
trance  requirements  of  the  College  of  Liberal  Arts  of  his  institu¬ 
tion,  or  their  equivalent. 

15.  (a)  |  No  student  shall  be  permitted  to  participate  in  any 
intercollegiate  contest  who  is  found  by  the  faculty  to  be  de¬ 
linquent  in  his  studies. 

(b)  The  Council  shall  declare  any  player  or  candidate  in¬ 
eligible  who  is  charged  with  a  mark  of  “ failed”,  “conditioned”, 
or  “incomplete”  in  any  of  his  studies.  Any  player  or  candi¬ 
date  whose  rank  is  unsatisfactory  in  any  study  may  be  disquali¬ 
fied. 

16.  %  No  person  having  been  a  member  of  any  college  athletic 
team  during  any  year,  and  having  been  in  attendance  less  than 
one  college  half-year,  shall  be  permitted  to  play  in  any  inter¬ 
collegiate  contest  thereafter  until  he  shall  have  been  in  attend¬ 
ance  six  consecutive  calendar  months. 

17.  %  (a)  No  student  shall  participate  in  intercollegiate  ath¬ 
letics  for  more  than  three  years  in  the  aggregate. 

(b)  Participation  shall  be  confined  to  students  who  have  not 
graduated  from  any  department  of  a  college  or  university. 

18.  %  (a)  A  student  shall  be  ineligible  to  represent  his  col¬ 
lege  in  athletic  contests  who  engages  in  such  contests  as  a  repre¬ 
sentative  of  any  athletic  organization  not  connected  with  his 
college,  whether  in  term  time  or  in  vacation. 

(b)  Occasional  games  during. vacation  on  teams  not  profes¬ 
sional  or  semi-professional  and  having  no  permanent  organiza¬ 
tion  are  not  prohibited. 

(c)  In  the  administration  of  this  rule  it  is  expressly  under¬ 
stood  that  a  semi-professional  team  is  one  any  member  of  which 
receives  remuneration  for  his  services;  and  proof  of  this  fact 
shall  not  devolve  on  the  person  giving  the  permission,  but  he 
may  accept  common  report  as  a  basis  for  action. 

19.  %  (a)  No  student  shall  be  admitted  to  any  intercol¬ 
legiate  contest  who  receives  any  gift,  remuneration,  or  pay  for 
his  services  on  a  college  team. 

(b)  No  student  shall  participate  in  any  intercollegiate  contest 
who  has  ever  used  or  is  using  his  knowledge  of  athletics  or  his 
athletic  skill  for  gain,  or  who  has  taken  part  in  any  athletic  con¬ 
tests  in  which  a  money  prize  is  offered, ‘regardless  of  the  dispo¬ 
sition  to  be  made  of  the  same.  No  person  who  receives  any  com- 


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pensation  from  the  University  for  services  rendered  by  way  of 
regular  instruction  shall  be  allowed  to  play  on  any  team. 

(c)  The  following  shall  be  expressly  allowed  as  legitimate 
expenses  for  the  department  of  physical  education  to  bear : 

(1)  Traveling  expenses. 

(2)  Expenses  for  uniforms,  shoes,  and  other  articles  of  cloth 
ing. 

(3)  Medical  expenses  connected  with  training  or  disabilities 
incurred  in  practice  or  in  contests. 

(4)  Expenses  incurred  in  providing  players  with  inexpensive 
souvenirs,  such  as  watch-charms,  sweaters,  photographs,  provided 
there  shall  be  no  element  of  compensation  for  services  rendered 
in  the  giving  of  any  such  souvenirs. 

(d)  No  student  shall  play  in  any  game  under  an  assumed 
name. 

20.  $  In  determining  the  amateur  standing  of  any  student, 
athletic  boards  and  faculty  committees  are  not  restricted  to  the 
consideration  of  positive  evidence,  but  are  at  liberty  to  consider 
the  circumstances  of  the  case  and  common  report  as  a  basis  for 
action. 

21.  %  Athletic  committees  shall  require  each  candidate  for  a 
team  who  represents  the  University, in  intercollegiate  contests,  to 
subscribe  to  a  statement  that  he  is  eligible  under  the  letter  and 
spirit  of  the  rules  adopted. 

22.  No  player  shall  be  eligible  to  receive  a  “W”  who  has 
not  returned  the  supplies  and  equipment  issued  to  him. 


CHAPTER  V. 


Nothing  in  the  foregoing  rules  shall  prevent  an  appeal  to  or 
special  action  by  the  Regents. 


INDEX 


Absence,  Leaves  of,  Faculty,  135,  136. 
For  Work  in  Summer  Session,  136. 
Reports  of,  135. 

Absentia,  Students  in,  Fees,  142. 
Academic  Year,  141. 

Calendar,  141. 

Length  of,  .  121. 

Terms  and  Vacations,  141. 

Accounts,  University,  30,  61. 

Biennial  Examination  of,  61. 
Accredited  Schools,  138. 

Adams  Act,  1906,  14;  2011,  22. 

Interpretations  of.  16. 

Adams  Fellowship  Fund,  124. 

Admission  of  Students,  62,  138. 
Advertising,  Postal  Regulation,  Concern¬ 
ing  Agricultural  Experiment  Sta¬ 
tion  Publications,  17. 
Agricultural,  Experiment  Station,  see 
Experiment  Station. 

Bulletins,  to  Whom  Sent,  12. 
Demonstration  Stations,  65. 

Extension  Work,  64. 

Agriculture,  College  of, 

Adams  Act,  1906,  16;  1911,  22. 

Interpretations  of,  1906,  17. 

Annual  Report,  4,  7,  12. 
Appropriations,  for  Agricultural  Col¬ 
leges,  5. 

Buildings,  39,  40,  41. 

Manner  of  Payment  of,  6. 

Mill  tax,  64. 

Time  of  Payment,  6. 

Traveling  Schools,  94. 

Bulletins,  12. 

Dean  of,  132 
Establishment  of,  2,  61. 

Fees,  143. 

Fund,  Defined,  44. 

Division  by  Regents,  44,  120. 

How  Constituted,  44. 

Income,  63. 

Interest  Derived  from,  44. 

From  Sale  of  Farm  and  Dairy  Prod¬ 
ucts,  27. 

Replacement  when  Lost  or  Misap¬ 
plied,  15. 

Hatch  Act,  1887,  11. 

Amendment  to,  1888,  14;  1889,  14. 


Agriculture,  College  of,  (continued.*) 
Instruction  and  Experimentation  in, 
61. 

Regents  Committee,  118. 

Reports  of  Experiments,  58. 

Reports  to  Governor,  15,  20. 

Service  of  Stallions,  96. 

Scientific  Investigation,  11. 

Land  Grants,  Federal  Laws,  2. 
Lands,  Sale  of,  44. 

Morrill  Act,  1862,  2  :  1890,  5. 

Nelson  Amendment  to,  1907.  8. 

Soils  Laboratory,  65. 

Traveling  Schools  of,  94. 

Agriculture,  Provisions  in  Aid  of,  64. 

Board  of.  Reports,  45. 

Anatomy,  Material  for,  76. 

Apparatus,  Care  of,  135. 

Appropriations,  36. 

Adams  Act,  1906,  16. 

Agricultural,  37. 

Manner  of  Payment,  6. 

Agricultural  Hall,  Improvements  on, 
40. 

Agricultural  College  Fund  Income,  41. 
Agricultural  Library  Annex,  39. 
Agricultural  Soils  Building,  Wing  to. 
39. 

Animal  Husbandry,  Improvements  to1 
Buildings,  40. 

Annual  Budget  Provision,  120. 

Army  and  Navy  Officers,  1888,  9. 
Athletic  Council,  43. 

Boat  and  Bath  Houses,  39. 

Buildings,  one-fifth  for.  12. 

Bulletin  Equipment  for  Agricultural 
Experiment  Station,  40. 

By  Regents,  120. 

Congressional,  12. 

Current  Expense,  41. 

Dairy  Products,  42. 

Departmental,  37. 

Demonstration  Stations,  40,  42. 
Dormitory,  39,  42. 

Educational  Buildings,  40. 

Equipment,  37. 

Extension,  University,  36,  37. 
Experimental  Stations.  40. 

General,  1913;  36,  37 


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Index 


Appropriations,  (continued). 

Hog  Cholera  Serum,  41. 

Increase  and  Regulation  of,  14. 
Subject  to  Legislative  Assent,  13. 
Farmers’  Institutes,  37,  39. 

Hatch  Act,  1887,  11. 

Gift,  43. 

Heating  Plant  Boilers,  40. 

Hill  Farm,  Barn  on,  40. 

Laboratory,  42. 

Land,  38. 

Laundry,  42. 

Lecture,  43. 

Liberal  Arts  Building,  40. 

Lincoln  Statue,  Stone  Work  for,  40. 
Medical  or  Physics  Building,  40. 
Morrill  Acts,  1862,  2;  1890,  5. 
Pharmacy,  41. 

Physics  Building,  40. 

Raymer  Farm,  Improvements  to  Build¬ 
ings,  40. 

Repair,  37. 

Seed  Inspection,  40. 

Shop  Building,  40. 

Soils  Laboratory,  41. 

Wisconsin  High  School,  40. 

Architect,  Superintending,  Duties  of,  114. 

Report  to  President,  130. 

Assistant  Professors,  134,  137. 

Tenure  of  Office,  134. 

Associate  Professors,  57,  134,  137. 

Tenure  of  Office,  134. 

Athletic  Council,  154. 

Appointment  of,  154. 

Duties,  154. 

Membership  of,  154. 

Athletic  Teams,  Captains,  154. 

Managers,  154. 

Temporary  and  Unpaid  Coaches,  155. 
Schedules,  154. 

Athletics,  Administration.  154. 
Appointment  of  Coaches,  155. 
Certification  of  Players,  155. 

Rules  of  Eligibility,  155. 

Financial  Management,  154. 

Foot  Ball  Season,  155. 

Preliminary  Training,  155. 

Regulation  by  Faculty,  155. 

Training  Table,  155. 

Barnard  Hall,  Mistress  of,  Reports 
to  Dean  of  Women,  132. 

Bequests,  University  Trust  Funds,  122. 
Biennial  Examination  of  University  Ac¬ 
counts,  61. 

Board  of  Regents,  see  Regents. 

Board  of  Visitors,  127. 

Budget,  Annual,  Time  of,  131. 

Drafts  upon,  120. 


Buildings,  Controlled  by  President,  130. 
Erection  of,  as  Authorized  by  Regents, 
58.  . 

Federal  Grants  not  for  Purchase  or 
Erection  of,  4,  15. 

Superintendent,  Duties  of,  115. 

Report  to  President,  130. 
Assistants,  115. 

Bursar,  Bond  of,  113. 

Duties  of,  113. 

Bulletins,  Agricultural,  to  Whom  Sent, 

12. 

Experiment  Station,  Publication  of,  12. 
Postal  Regulations  of,  17. 

Farmers’  Institute,  for  all  District 
School  Libraries,  69. 

University,  Printing  of,  48. 

Business  Manager,  110. 

By-Laws  of  Regents,  109. 

Amendment  of,  126. 

Cadets,  Corps  of,  68. 

Inspection  of,  68. 

Officers  Report  to  Governor,  68. 
Calendar,  141. 

Terms  and  Vacations,  141. 

Camp  Randall  Memorial  Park,  107. 
Chadbourne  Hall,  Mistress  of,  Reports  to 
Dean  of  Women,  132. 

Chaperones,  152. 

Chemistry,  Course  in.  Duties  of  Director 
of,  132. 

Civil  Service,  Classification  of  Service, 
74. 

Exemption  of  Faculty  Members,  74. 
Exemption  of  Library*  Staff,  74. 
Claims,  How  Made,  60. 

Coaches,  Athletic  Teams,  155. 
Appointment,  155. 

Term  of,  155. 

Salaries,  155. 

Temporary  and  Unpaid,  154. 

College  of  Agriculture,  see  Agriculture. 
College  of  Letters  and  Science,  see  Let¬ 
ters  and  Science. 

Colleges  of  State  made  Branches  of  Uni¬ 
versity,  105. 

Commencement,  Attendance  at,  146. 
Exercises,  138. 

Time  of,  141. 

Commerce,  Course  in,  Duties  of  Director, 
132. 

Commissioners  of  University  Lands,  35. 

Investment  of  Funds,  35. 
Concentrated  Feeding  Stuffs,  92. 
Contagious  Abortion,  Appropriation  for, 
68. 

Constitution,  State,  Provision  for  Uni¬ 
versity,  35. 

Provision  for  Education,  35. 
Contracts,  Athletic,  154. 


Index 


161 


■Council,  see  Athletic  Council. 

County  Agricultural  Representatives,  70. 
Court,  Student,  147. 

Dairy  and  Food  Commissioner,  Co-opera¬ 
tion  of  University  with,  76. 
Deans,  131. 

Of  College  of  Agriculture,  ex-officio 
Director  of  Agricultural  Experi¬ 
ment  Station,  132. 

Biennial  Report  of,  131. 

Control  of  Property,  3  35. 

Duties,  131. 

Nomination  of,  130. 

Salaries  of,  130. 

Tenure  of  Office,  134. 

Debates,  Regulation  of,  146. 

Degrees,  Baccalaureate,  138. 

Faculty  Power  to  Confer,  138. 

Higher,  138. 

Honorary,  138. 

Time  of  Completion  of  Work  for,  146. 
Demonstration  School,  64. 

Departmental  Committees,  Duties  of,  132. 
Departments,  Appointment  of  Chairmen 
of,  133. 

Duties  of  Chairmen  of,  133. 

Diplomas,  Countersigning  by  State  Su¬ 
perintendent,  62,  69. 

Granting,  61,  146. 

Dating  of,  146. 

Directors,  Duties  of,  132,  134. 
Nomination,  130. 

Salaries,  130. 

Tenure  of  Office,  134. 

Discipline,  Appeals  of  Students,  138. 
Committee  on,  138. 

Responsible  to  Student  Court,  139. 
Suspension  and  Expulsion  of  Students, 
139,  145). 

Domestic  Science,  see  Home  Economics. 
Donations,  see  Gifts. 

Dramatic  Organizations.  Regulation  by 
Faculty,  138,  152,  153. 

Trips,  153. 

Education,  School  of,  64. 

Eligibility  for  Athletic  Teams,  155. 

Rules  of,  155. 

Subscription  to  Statement  of,  157. 
Employes,  Civil  Service  Rules  Regarding, 

74. 

Not  to  Act  as  Agents,  135. 

Reports  of  Inefficiency,  130. 

Shall  not  Impair  Services,  136. 
Endowment,  College  of  Agriculture,  2,  5. 
Engineering,  College  of, 

Courses  in,  62. 

Establishment,  61. 

Fees,  142. 

Reports  of  Investigations  and  Experi¬ 
ments,  59. 


Entrance  Requirements,  Fixed  by  Fac¬ 
ulty,  138. 

Establishment  of  University  by  State 
Constitution,  35. 

By  Territorial  Law,  32. 

Experiment  Station,  Act  Creating,  11. 
Act  of  1888,  14. 

Adams  Act,  1906,  16  ;  1911,  22. 
Additional  Stations,  21. 

Annual  Financial  Statement,  20. 
Annual  Report,  4,  7. 

Agricultural  Director,  132. 
Anticipation  of  Appropriations,  21, 
Analysis  of  Fertilizers,  80. 
Appropriations  for  Buildings,  39,  40, 
43. 

For  Fiscal  Year,  not  Calendar,  21. 
Subject  to  Legislative  Assent,  6,  22. 
Subject  to  Congressional  Assent,  12. 
Bulletins,  Publication  of,  12. 

Free  Distribution  of,  12. 

Connection  of  With  Colleges,  21. 
Co-operation  with  United  States  De¬ 
partment  of  Agriculture,  17. 
Establishment  of,  11. 

Fertilizers,  Licensing  of,  Commercial, 
80. 

Sampling  of,  Commercial,  80 
Fiscal  Year,  When  Commenced,  23. 
Forms  of  Reports,  12. 

Funds,  Division  of,  44. 

Regulation  of,  121. 

Governor's  Report  to  Secretary  of 
Treasury,  20. 

Hatch  Ac’t,  11,  14,  20. 

Morrill  Act,  2,  5. 

Officers’  Reports,  20. 

Object  of,  11. 

Postal  Regulations  Regarding  Bulle¬ 
tins,  17. 

Printing  for,  45. 

Provision  for  Research,  11. 
Regulations  of  Publications  of,  17. 
Rulings  of  Treasury  Department  Af¬ 
fecting,  20. 

Rulings  of  Department  of  Agricul¬ 
ture  Affecting1,  23. 

Sale  of  Card  Index  of  Literature,  17. 
Reports,  Enlargement  of,  48. 

Number  of  Copies,  46. 

Size  of,  48. 

Time  Covered  by,  4,  7,  12. 

Rulings  of  Treasury  Department  Re¬ 
garding,  21. 

Sale  of  Commercial  Fertilizers,  79. 
Sub;Stations,  23. 

Faculty,  Absence,  Leaves  of,  135,  136. 
Admission  to  Colleges,  Regulations 
for,  138. 

Agents,  Not  to  Act  as,  135. 


162 


Index 


Faculty  (continued). 

Appeals,  Committee  on,  139. 
Appointment  of  Committees,  138. 
Athletics,  Regulation  of,  138. 
Commencement  Exercises,  Form  of, 
138. 

Committees,  138,  139. 

Compensation  for  Summer  Session 
Services,  136. 

Civil  Service,  Exemption  from,  74. 
Discipline,  Committee  on,  139. 

Of  Students,  145. 

Degrees,  Nature  of  Degrees  Decided 
by,  138. 

Election  of  Members,  130. 

Entrance  Requirements,  138. 

Fees,  As  Students,  142. 

Fellowships,  140. 

Higher  Degrees,  138. 

Honorary  Degrees,  138. 

Impairment  of  Service,  135. 

Library  Committee,  Election  of,  138. 
Meetings  of,  138. 

Membership,  131. 

Nomination  of  Members,  130. 
Organization,  137. 

Organizations,  Regulations  of,  138. 
Powers,  138. 

President  of,  138. 

Ex-officio  Member  of  Committees,  138. 
Recommendations  as  to  Salaries,  130. 
Registrar,  134. 

Regular  Committees,  138. 

Regulations,  General,  145. 
Responsibility  for  Apparatus,  etc.,  135. 
Rules,  for  Government  and  Discipline 
of_Students,  145. 

Appeal  to  or  Special  Action  by  Re¬ 
gents,  151. 

Infraction  of  by  Students,  Punishment 
for,  138,  145. 

Salary  Certificates,  121. 

Scholarships,  138. 

Secretary,  138. 

Service,  in  Summer  Session,  136. 
Social  Affairs  Regulation  of,  138. 
Solicitation  of  Funds,  135. 

Terms  of  Graduation,  138,  146. 
University,  137. 

Vacations  of,  121. 

Vice-President.  Duties  of,  138. 

Votes,  137,  139. 

Faculties  of  Colleges,  Schools,  and  Divi¬ 
sions,  139. 

Dean  ex-officio  Memb  'r  of  all  Commit¬ 
tees,  139. 

Discipline,  140,  145. 

Duties,  140. 

Organization,  139. 

Proceedings,  140. 

Secretaries,  139. 


Farmers’  Institutes,  Assistance  of  Dairy 
and  Food  Commissioner,  76. 
Authorized,  79. 

Appropriations,  79. 

Bulletins,  for  all  District  School  Li¬ 
braries,  69. 

Instruction  at,  79. 

Regulation  of,  79. 

Federal  Land  Grants,  1. 

Federal  Laws,  1. 

Fellows,  Election,  140. 

Honorary,  138. 

Tenure  of  Office,  134. 

Fellowship,  Adams  Trust  Fund,  124. 
Fees,  141. 

College  of  Agriculture,  143. 

College  of  Engineering,  142. 
Graduate  School,  142. 

College  of  Law,  143. 

College  of  Letters  and  Science,  142. 
Library  School,  143. 

Medical  School,  142. 

School  of  Music,  143. 

Delay  in  Registration,  142. 

Summer  Session,  143. 

Wisconsin  HigfT  School,  143. 
Determined  by  Registrar,  141. 

For  Faculty  Members,  142. 
Remittance  of  Summer  Session,  141. 
Graduate  Students,  141. 

Honorary  Fellows  and  Scholars,  141. 
Laboratory,  144. 

Non-  Resident  Graduates,  142. 

Partial,  144. 

Refunds,  144. 

Remission  for  Military  Service,  142. 
Schedule  of,  142. 

Special,.  144. 

Students  in  Absentia,  142. 

Summer  Session,  143. 

Tuition,  141. 

Feeding  Stuffs,  94. 

Fertilizers,  Analysis  of,  80. 

Licensing  Commercial,  80. 

Sale  of  Commercial,  79. 

Securing  Sample  of  Commercial,  80. 
Unlawful  Sale  of  Commercial,  80. 
Finance,  120. 

Committee  of  Regents,  Duties  of,  118. 
Foot  Ball,  Close  of  Season,  155. 
Freshman  Teams,  155. 

Games,  155. 

Membership  of  Teams,  155. 

Number  of  Inter-Collegiate  Games, 
155. 

Preliminary  Training,  155. 
Fraternities,  House  Committees,  153. 
House  Rules,  151. 

Regulation  of  Social  Events,  151. 


Index 


163 


.’Funds,  Agricultural  College,  Defined,  44. 
Allotment  of  Special,  120. 

Division  by  Regents,  44,  120. 

From  Sale  of  Farm  and  Dairy  Prod¬ 
ucts,  27. 

How  Constituted,  44. 

Income,  Trust  Funds,  63,  64,  122. 
Interest  Derived  From,  44. 

Not  for  Purchase  or  Erection  of 
Buildings,  4,  15. 

Replacement  When  Lost  or  Misap¬ 
plied,  15. 

Experiment  Station,  Division  of,  44. 

Regulation  for  Expenditure,  121. 
From  Federal  Land  Grants,  1. 
Investment  by  Commissioners,  35. 
Transfer  of,  122. 

Trust  Funds,  44,  122. 

Adams  Fellowship  Fund,  124. 

Annual  Report  of,  123, 

Bequests,  63,  122. 

Commissioners,  44" 

Investment,  45. 

Loans  and  Investments,  45.  . 

Losses  in,  15. 

Management,  44. 

Regents  Committee  on,  63. 
Secretary’s  Account  of.  123. 

Stocks  and  Loans  in  Which  to  be 
Invested,  45. 

University  Created,  35. 

'Gifts,  Soliciting  of,  135. 

To  University,  63,  122. 

University  Trust  Funds,  122. 

Use  of,  125. 

Graduate  School,  139. 

Fees,  142. 

Fellows,  141. 

Scholars,  141. 

'Graduates,  Military  Rank  of  Certain,  69, 

74. 

Teachers’  Certificates  for,  69. 
•Grasshoppers,  White  Grub  and,  Eradica¬ 
tion  of,  107. 

Grounds,  Superintendent  of,  Duties,  115. 

Report  to  President,  130. 

Gymnasium,  Duties  of  Director,  132. 
Hatch  Act,  1887,  11;  1885,  20,  21,  22. 

Amendment  to  1888,  13;  1889,  14. 
Historian,  University,  134. 

Hog  Cholera  Serum,  134. 

Home  Economics,  Director  of  Course  in, 
Duties  of.  132. 

Horse  Breeding.  Department  of  Public 
Service  of  Stallions,  96. 

House  Committees,  152. 

Hygienic  Laboratory,  Appropriation  for, 

75,  76. 

Examinations  for  Physicians,  Veterin¬ 
arians,  and  Health  Officers,  75. 
Personnel,  75. 


Hygienic  Laboratory  (continued). 
Powers,  75. 

Purposes,  75. 

Preparation  of  Vaccine  for  Hydropho¬ 
bia,  75. 

State  Board  of  Health,  75. 

Insecticides  and  Fungicides,  Manufac¬ 
ture  and  Sale  of,  89. 

Instruction,  Non-partisan,  57,  134. 

Non-sectarian,  57,  134. 

Instructors,  134,  137. 

Leave  of  Absence  for  Work  in  Summer- 
Session,  136. 

Removal  of,  57,  134.* 

Tenure  of  Office,  134. 

Intercollegiate  Games,  Certification  of 
Players,  155. 

Eligibility  for,  155. 

Grounds  for,  154. 

Number  of  Foot-ball  Games,  155. 

Price  of  Admission  to,  154. 

Regulation  of,  by  Faculty,  155. 
Regulations  for  Participants,  155. 
Inventory  of  Property,  136. 
Investigations,  Reports  of,  57,  58. 
Laboratories,  Regents’  Regulations  of, 
57. 

Fees,  144. 

Land  Grant  Colleges  Depositories  for 
Public  Documents,  1907,  10. 

Lands,  Condemnation  of,  35,  72. 

Commissioners,  Who  Constitute  Board 
of,  35,  72. 

Appointment  of,  72. 

Discontinuance  of  Proceedings,  73^ 
Agricultural  College,  Sale  of,  44. 

Notice  to  Landowner,  72. 

Federal  Grants,  1838,  1  ;  1854,  2. 
Funds  for  Purchase  or  Rental  Limit¬ 
ed,  4,  15. 

Method  of  Acquiring,  35. 

Salt  Springs,  Relinquished,  1. 
University.  How  Sold,  35. 

Law  School,  Admission  of  Graduates  to 
Bar,  105. 

Courses  of  Instruction,  62. 
Establishment,  61. 

Fees.  143. 

Regents  Committee,  117. 

Legislative  Journals  for,  54. 

Railroad  Maps  for,  55. 

Wisconsin  Session  Laws  for,  54. 
Wisconsin  Statutes  for,  54. 

Laws,  Adams  Act,  1906,  16;  1911,  22. 
Federal,  1838,  1;  1854,  2;  1888,  9. 
Hatch  Act,  1887,  9;  1888,  21,  22. 
Morrill  Act,  1862,  2;  1890,'  5. 

Nelson  Amendment  to,  8. 

Regents,  144. 

Amendments,  144. 

Territorial,  of  1838,  32. 


164 


Index 


Letters  and  Science,  College  of, 

Courses  in,  62. 

Dean,  131. 

Establishment  of,  61. 

Fees,  142. 

Regents  Committee,  117. 

Librarian,  University,  133. 

Duties  of,  133. 

Library,  Civil  Service  Exemption  of 
Staff,  74. 

Election  of  Committee,  138. 

Librarian,  133. 

Regents’  Regulation  of,  57. 

Staff,  133. 

Library  Science,  School  of,  55. 

Liquor,  Sale  of  Forbidden,  105. 

Loans,  Collateral  Securities  for,  125. 
Location  of  University,  35. 

Military  Department. 

Agricultural  Students,  62. 

Duties  of  Professor,  132. 

Inspection,  68. 

Reports  of,  68. 

Suspension  from,  69. 

Instruction  and  Discipline,  62. 

Officers  Eligible  in  Wisconsin  National 
Guard,  74. 

Prizes  for  Service,  142. 

Rank  of  Graduates,  69,  74. 

Rank  of  Professor,  74. 

Remission  of  Fees  for  Services,  74. 
University  Majors  Brevetted  upon  Ex¬ 
amination,  74. 

United  States  Army  Officer  may  be 
Colonel,  74. 

Manufactures,  Purchase  of,  73. 

Money  Appropriations,  120. 

Mortgages.  How  Executed  to  Secure 
Loans,  125. 

Morrill  Act,  1862,  2  ;  1890,  5. 

Division  of  Funds  by  Regents,  121. 
Museum,  Regents’  Regulation  of,  57. 
Music,  School  of.  Director  of,  132. 
Musical  Organizations,  Regulations  of, 
by  Faculty,  152. 

Regulations,  152. 

Trips.  153. 

Nurseries,  Inspection  of.  36,  85. 

Officers,  of  University,  129. 

Biennial  Report  of,  131. 

Election  of,  57,  130. 

Removal  of,  57.  130. 

Tenure  of  Office,  134. 

Of  Experiment  Station,  Bond,  20. 
Orations,  Regulations  of.  146. 
Organizations.  Dramatic,  152. 

Musical,  152. 

Social,  House  Rules.  152. 


Student  Regulations  Governing  Ad¬ 
mission  into  Fraternities  and  So¬ 
rorities,  153. 

Eligibility,  153. 

Public  Exhibitions,  152. 

Social  Life,  152. 

Pharmaceutical  Experiment  Station,  67- 
Pharmacy,  Course  in,  Duties  of  Director, 
132. 

Physical  Education, 

Director  of,  Duties  of,  132. 

Expenses  for  Athletic  Teams,  154. 
Receipts  for  Games  and  Contests,  154- 
Return  of  Supplies  and  Equipment, . 
157. 

Postal  Regulations,  17. 

Agricultural  Publications,  17. 

To  Whom  Mailable,  12,  17. 

Bulletins  and  Reports,  18. 

To  Whom  Mailable,  18. 

Experiment  Station  Publication?.  17. 
Method  of  Securing  Privilege,  18. 
Wrapper  for  Bulletins  and  R  ports,  18- 
President  of  University,  Absence  of,  131.. 
Control  of  Buildings,  130.  13'8. 

Control  of  Property,  130,  136. 

Duties,  130. 

Election  of,  130. 

Ex-Officio  Member  of  Faculty  Com¬ 
mittees,  138. 

Ex-Officio  Member  of  Regents,  56. 
Presiding  Officer  of  Faculties,  130. 
Pro-Tern,  Duties  of,  131. 
Recommendations  of,  130. 

Reports  to  Regents,  131. 

Reports  of  Officers  to,  130. 

Removal  of,  57. 

Submission  of  Budget,  131. 

Time  of  Biennial  Report,  58. 

Vacancy  in  Office  of,  131. 

President  of  Regents,  61.  111. 

Printing,  for  Board  of  Agriculture,  17. 
Bulletins,  48. 

Reports,  45. 

Professors,  Appointment  of,  57,  134,  137- 
Assistant,  Duties  of,  57,  134,  137. 
Term  of,  134. 

Associate,  Duties  of,  57,  134,  137. 

Term  of,  134. 

Election  of,  57. 

Leaves  of  Absence,  135.  136. 

Of  Military  Science  and  Tactics,  Du¬ 
ties,  132. 

Nomination,  130. 

Not  to  Act  as  Agents,  135., 

Reports  of  Absence,  135. 

Responsible  for  Apparatus,  etc.,  135- 
Salaries,  121. 

Term  of,  121. 


Index 


165 


Property,  Care  of,  135. 

Inventory  of,  136. 

Publications,  Student,  Regulation  of, 
146. 

Public  Documents,  Distribution  of,  18, 
54. 

Printing  of,  45. 

Public  Libraries,  Definition  of,  54. 
Public  Policy,  Offenses  against,  106. 
Purchasing  Agent,  114. 

Regents,  Board  of,  56.  . 

Accounts  and  Claims  Against,  60. 
Amendments  to  Laws  of,  144. 
Appointment  of,  56. 

Appropriations  of  Money  by,  120. 
Auditor,  Duties  of,  61. 

Biennial  Reports  of  Finances  and  Ex¬ 
penses,  46,  58. 

Board  of,  56. 

By-Laws,  109. 

Amendments,  126. 

Bursar,  Duties  of,  113. 

Committees,  117. 

Agriculture,  118. 

By-Laws  and  Laws,  119. 

College  of  Engineering,  118. 
Constructional  Development,  118. 
Executive,  117. 

Finance,  118. 

Submission  of  Budget  to,  131. 
General  Provisions  for,  119. 

Law  School,  118. 

On  Letters  and  Science,  118. 
Physical  Education,  118. 

Medical  School,  118. 

Military  Science,  11 8. 

Reports  of,  119. 

Summer  Session,  118. 

University  Extension,  118. 

Women’s  Affairs,  118. 

On  Trust  Funds,  119. 

Vacancies  on,  119. 

Corporate  Name,  56. 

Drafts  upon  Budget,  120. 

Duties  of,  56,  57. 

Election  of  Faculty.  57. 

Of  Officers  of  University,  57. 

Of  President  of  University,  57. 
Expenses  of,  36. 

Financial  Control,  120. 

Laboratories,  Regulation  of,  57. 

Laws  of,  127. 

Library,  Regulation  of,  57. 

Loans  by,  125. 

Meetings,  Annual,  57,  109. 

Open,  57. 

Order  of  Business  or,  110. 
Parliamentary  Rules  for,  110. 

Place  of,  110. 

Regular,  109. 


Meetings  (continued). 

Special,  109. 

Method  of  Expending  Appropriations, 
58. 

Officers  of,  56,  110. 

Accountant,  114. 

Auditor,  61. 

Architect,  114. 

Bursar,  113. 

Business  Manager,  110, 

Consulting  Engineer,  115. 

Consulting  Electrical  Engineer,  115. 
Editor,  116. 

Election  of,  110. 

Electrician,  Chief,  115. 

Engineer,  Chief  Operating,  115. 
Engineer  of  Construction,  115. 
Photographer,  116. 

President,  111. 

President  Pro-Tem,  111. 

Purchasing  Agent,  114. 

Requisition  Clerk,  114. 

Secretary,  Bond  of,  112. 

Duties  of,  111. 

Power  to  Receive  Money,  112. 
Steward,  116. 

Storekeeper,  116. 

Superintendent  of  Buildings  and 
Grounds,  115. 

Treasurer  of,  State  Treasurer  is,  56. 
Vice-President,  111. 

Powers  of,  to  Condemn  Land,  56,  57. 
To  Expend  Income,  58. 

To  Remove  President  and  Faculty, 
57. 

President,  61,  111. 

*  President  Pro  Tem.  111. 

Quorum,  57. 

Receipts  and  Disbursements,  59. 
Reports,  46,  58. 

Biennial,  45,  58. 

Number,  46. 

Printing  of,  45. 

Secretary,  111. 

Bond  of,  59,  112. 

Business  Manager,  Absence  of,  113. 
Term  of,  56. 

Treasurer,  110. 

Vacancies  in  Board,  56. 
Vice-President,  111. 

Woman  Member  of,  56. 

Registrar,  Duties  of,  134. 

Regulations  of  Post  Office  Department, 
17. 

Religious  Instruction,  Forbidden,  57,  134. 
Reports,  of  Absence,  135. 

Agricultural  College,  Annual,  4,  7,  12. 
Enlargement  of,  48. 

Of  Experiments,  12. 

To  Governor,  15,  20. 


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Index 


Reports  (continued). 

Postal  Regulations  Regarding,  12, 
17. 

Biennial,  45,  58. 

Board  of  Visitors,  56. 

Experiment  Station,  11. 

Annual,  12,  20. 

Of  Officers,  4,  7. 

Publication  of,  12. 

Postal  Regulations  Regarding,  12,  17. 
To  Whom  Mailable,  12,  TT 
Wrapper,  18. 

Printing  of,  45,  59. 

State  Officers’,  45. 

Binding  of,  48. 

Distribution,  54. 

Enlargement,  48. 

Number  of  Copies,  46. 

Printing,  45. 

Size  of,  48. 

Requisitions,  Approval  of,  120. 

Research,  Provision  for  in  Experiment 
Station,  11. 

Rulings  of  Treasury  Department,  20. 
Salaries,  121. 

Salt  Springs,  Act  Relinguishing,  2. 
Scholars,  Graduate,  Election,  140. 
Honorary,  140. 

School  of  Music,  Duties  of  Director.  3  32. 
Schools,  Accredited,  138. 

Seal,  University,  32,  112. 

Secretary  of  Faculty,  138,  139. 
Secretary  of  Regents,  Duties  of,  111. 

Bond  of,  59. 

Seed  Law,  Pure,  81. 

Social,  Events,  Regulation  of,  151. 
Organizations,  House  Committees,  152. 
Soil  Surveys,  Provisions  for,  14. 

Soil  Survey  and  Map,  68. 

Soils  Laboratory,  65. 

Sororities,  House  Committees,  153. 
House  Rules,  151. 

Regulation  of  Social  Events  in,  151. 
Special  Funds,  Allotment  of,  120. 
Stallions,  Public  Service  of,  96. 

State  Constitution,  Regarding  Univer¬ 
sity,  31. 

Laws,  Distribution  of  Copies  of,  54. 
Regarding  University,  35. 

Definition  of,  54. 

Superintendent.  ex-Officio  Member  of 
Regents,  56.  , 

Statutes  of  Wisconsin,  36. 

Copies  of  for  Law  School,  54. 

Student  Court,  147. 

Impeachment  of  Members,  149. 
Organization,  148. 

Powers,  148. 

Appeal  from  Decisions,  148. 


Student  Judicial  Committee,  150. 

Abridgement  of  Powers  of  Court  or 
Committee,  151. 

Students,  Admission  of,  62,  138. 

Appeal  to  Faculty,  139. 
Commencement,  Attendance  at,  146. 
Concerted  Absence  of,  146. 

Court,  147. 

Defective  Scholarship,  146. 

Discipline,  138,  145. 

Degrees,  Recommendations  of  Fac¬ 
ulty  for,  146. 

Committee  on,  138. 

Eligibility  for  Athletics,  155. 
Expulsion,  139,  145. 

Faculty  Rules  for,  145. 

Fees,  See  Fees. 

Inattention  to  Duties,  146. 

In  Absentia,  Fees,  142. 

Non-Resident,  142. 

Organizations,  151. 

Participation  in  Public  Exhibitions, 
146. 

Regulations,  of  Productions,  146. 

Of  Publications,  146. 

Response  to  Calls  of  Faculty,  145. 
Special,  Fees  for,  144. 

Suspension  and  Expulsion,  139,  145. 
Tuition,  62,  141. 

Withdrawal  by  Request,  145. 
Sub-Stations  for  Agricultural  Experi¬ 
ment,  23. 

Summer  Session,  Regulations,  64. 
Compensation  for  Services  in,  136. 
Director,  136. 

Establishment  of,  136. 

Faculty  Services  in,  136. 

Fees,  143. 

Leave  of  Absence  for  Work  in,  136; 
Length  of,  136. 

Teachers  for,  64,  136. 

Superintendent  of  Buildings,  115. 
Superintendent,  State,  56. 

Supplies,  Purchased  From  State  Insti¬ 
tutions,  73. 

Teachers,  Certificates,  To  Graduates,  69. 
Territorial  Laws,  32. 

Training  of  Teachers,  Course  in,  Duties 
of  Director  for,  132. 

Training  Table,  Athletic,  155. 

Traveling  Schools  of  Agriculture,  94. 
Treasurer.  State,  Treasurer  of  Regents, 
110. 

Treasury  Department  Rulings  Regarding 
Experiment  Stations,  20. 

Trust  Funds,  44,  122. 

Trust  Funds  Income,  122. 

Adams  Fellowship  Fund,  124. 

Annual  Report  of,  1?3. 

Secretary’s  Account  of,  123. 

Tuition,  62,  142. 


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167 


University  of  Wisconsin,  50. 

Colleges  and  Departments  of,  02. 
Diplomas  May  be  Countersigned,  62. 
Employes,  129. 

Establishment  of,  by  State  Law,  35. 

By  Territorial  Law,  32. 

Extension,  Authorized,  81. 

Fund,  Constitutional  Provision  .for, 
34,  44. 

Created,  34. 

From  Federal  Land  Grants,  34. 

How  Constituted,  34. 

Interest  from,  34. 

In  What  Made,  44. 

Purchase  Money  on  Sale  of  Lands, 
36. 

Funds,  Permission  to  Solicit,  135. 

For  Support  of  Gifts,  Bequests,  etc., 
63. 

Future  Income,  Payments  Into,  42. 
Government  of,  56. 

Historian  of,  134. 

Instruction  Non-sectarian  and  Non¬ 
partisan,  57,  134. 

Lands,  Commissioners  of,  3f>,  72. 

Sale  of,  35,  72. 

Length  of  Year,  121,  141. 

Location  and  Style  of,  56. 

Military  Instruction,  62. 

Object  and  Departments  of,  61. 
Officers  and  Employes,  129. 

Terms  of,  130. 

Open  to  both  Sexes,  62. 

President,  Duties  of,  130. 

Seal,  32,  112. 

State  Constitution  Provides  for,  35. 
Support  and  Endowment,  63. 


University  of  Wisconsin  (continued). 
Trust  Funds,  44,  122. 

Income,  44. 

Tuition,  62,  142. 

Summer  School,  64,  136. 

Employment  of  Teachers,  64. 
Vacations,  141. 

Vice-President  of  University,  131. 
Duties,  131. 

Election  of,  130. 

Term  of,  57. 

Visitors,  Board  of,  127. 

Annual  Report,  128. 

Compensation,  128. 

Appointment,  127. 

Uuties,  127. 

How  Composed,  127. 

Meeting,  Time  of,  128. 

With  Regents,  129. 

Nomination,  127. 

Powers,  127. 

To  Call  Witnesses,  129. 

Territorial  Law  on,  32. 

Washburn  Observatory,  Director  of,  134. 
Duties,  134. 

Reports  of,  134. 

White  Grub  and  Grasshopper  Pests, 
Eradication  of,  107. 

Wisconsin  Statutes,  Copies  for  Law 
School,  54. 

Woman  Member  of  Regents,  56. 

Women  Students,  62. 

Admission  of,  62. 

Year,  Academic,  141. 

Length  of,  121. 

Terms  and  Vacations,  141. 


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